Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9 v3] Add the MPC8641 HPCN platform files.

From: Jon Loeliger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:32:08 -0500

So, like, the other day Segher Boessenkool mumbled:
> 
> I'm confused now.  So are or arent't all CPUs running at the
> time Linux is started?

Only the boot CPU is running.  The others are not.

>  Are you saying Linux manually starts
> all non-boot CPUs?!?

Right.  The secondary CPUs are not clocking, not able to
fetch memory, not nothing until Linux gets a shot at
smp_secondary_kick()'ing them into motion.  And then we
have the ability to start the scondary CPUs one at a time.

jdl