[haiku-development] Re: SMP: Is MAX_BOOT_CPUS 4 restriction intentional?

Hi, François

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:10:48 +0200 CEST, "François Revol" wrote:
>> http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/6451/capturedcran20090929121.png 
>> :)
> 
> Looks nice :)
> 
> I just commited it as r33349.

Note that it is still not checked on the _real_ hardware.

> Modified:
>   
haiku/trunk/headers/private/kernel/boot/platform/bios_ia32/platform_kernel_args.h
>    haiku/trunk/src/system/libroot/posix/malloc/heap.h
> Log:
> Patch by Vincent Duvert:
> Remove the 4 cores limit at boot, and fix the allocator to handle 8
cores.
> There are still performance problems, but this allows booting with 8
cores.
> WARNING: since this changes x86 platform kernel args, you really don't
> want to update haiku_loader and kernel_x86 separately!

But that was my idea !!!  >:-D

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Kind Regards,
   S.Zharski

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