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Can nios2-uClinux support SMP?

Altera_Forum
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‎07-15-2012 08:06 AM
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hello,all. 

I'm a student in university, I want to do some research with nios2-uClinux and I would like to know if the uClinux for NIOS2 could support SMP?
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Altera_Forum
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‎07-16-2012 12:35 PM
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The Nios CPU itself is missing some features for SMP, so no you won't find support for SMP on linux on Nios.

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Altera_Forum
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‎07-17-2012 01:24 AM
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Could you tell me the features that the NIOS CPU missing for SMP? thank you very much.

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Altera_Forum
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‎07-18-2012 01:44 PM
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Any form of read-modify-write locked bus cycle

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