SMP Boot Code

Getting Started with FreeRTOS V11.0 SMP in the Era of Embedded Multicore

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Getting Started with FreeRTOS V11.0 SMP in the Era of Embedded Multicore

Hello everyone, welcome to <span>LiXin Embedded</span>. FreeRTOS V11.0 provides support for Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) on multicore systems. Previously, multicore development often required using various branch versions of FreeRTOS, which was quite cumbersome. Now, V11.0 integrates SMP directly into the mainline, allowing seamless switching between single-core and multicore. Today, we will discuss how to apply this … Read more

Line-by-Line Interpretation of Armv8-A Assembly SMP Boot Code

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Line-by-Line Interpretation of Armv8-A Assembly SMP Boot Code

This article provides a line-by-line explanation of the Armv8-A assembly code sourced from Arm® Development Studio. It focuses on the boot sequence of the AArch64 MPCore processor. This code initializes the system from Exception Level 3 (EL3, typically the Secure Monitor mode) and transitions to Exception Level 1 (EL1, typically the OS mode), during which … Read more