[U-Boot] Booting two OS on dual core processor using U-boot.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Nov 3 00:01:37 CET 2011


On 11/02/2011 06:19 AM, Sandeep Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I have a query regarding U-Boot. Is it possible to boot two separate OS on
> a Dual/multi core processor using U-Boot. I want to implement AMP on a dual
> core processor and want to run two separate OS on a dual core arm cortex a9
> processor. Did anybody tried the same thing earlier using the U-Boot.
> 
> 
> 
> Any kind of help will be highly appreciated..

We've done this on powerpc, using bootm subcommands to prepare the
device tree, and then the "cpu" command in common/cmd_mp.c to boot
something on the second core.

-Scott



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