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authorBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>2015-07-27 19:16:08 +0800
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2015-08-05 08:42:38 -0600
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x86: qemu: Add MP initialization
Add a cpu1 node to the device tree and enable the MP initialization on QEMU targets (i440fx and q35). Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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@@ -281,6 +281,11 @@ QEMU emulates a graphic card which U-Boot supports. Removing '-nographic' will
show QEMU's VGA console window. Note this will disable QEMU's serial output.
If you want to check both consoles, use '-serial stdio'.
+Multicore is also supported by QEMU via '-smp n' where n is the number of cores
+to instantiate. Currently the default U-Boot built for QEMU supports 2 cores.
+In order to support more cores, you need add additional cpu nodes in the device
+tree and change CONFIG_MAX_CPUS accordingly.
+
CPU Microcode
-------------
Modern CPUs usually require a special bit stream called microcode [8] to be