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

Peter ptyser at xes-inc.com
Thu Nov 3 00:11:06 CET 2011


> > 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.

There are a few powerpc examples in doc/ directory too, eg
doc/README.p2020rdb. Grepping for 'AMP' should find some more.

Best,
Peter



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