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

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:36:38 +0200 CEST

> > I just commited it as r33349.
>
> Note that it is still not checked on the _real_ hardware.

Yep, we do accept donations ;)

> > 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

Actually I investigated this a while ago too.
He did the diff first :p

François.

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