svn commit: r44474 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Apr 7 17:17:12 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Mon Apr  7 17:17:11 2014
New Revision: 44474
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44474

Log:
  - Add 2014Q1 status report for multi-core ARM support
  
  Submitted by:	ian

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Mon Apr  7 17:15:51 2014	(r44473)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-01-2014-03.xml	Mon Apr  7 17:17:11 2014	(r44474)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep the number of entries updated -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 25 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 26 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between April and
       June 2014 is July 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -1548,4 +1548,65 @@ device vt_efifb</pre>
 
     <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>SMP on Multi-Core ARM Systems</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ian</given>
+	  <common>Lepore</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>ian at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Olivier</given>
+	  <common>Houchard</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>cognet at ci0.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Wojciech</given>
+	  <common>Macek</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>wma at semihalf.com</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>&os; now supports Symmetrical MultiProcessing (SMP) on a
+	variety of ARM multi-core systems.  The effort to bring SMP to
+	ARM has been underway for quite some time, but a major push by
+	the &os; ARM developer community over the past two months has
+	resulted in robust production-ready SMP support.</p>
+
+      <p>An ever-growing number of ARM-based development boards and
+	small low-power computer systems are available with multi-core
+	processors.  &os; is now able to make good use of all that
+	computing power, making such systems more attractive to both end
+	users and vendors looking to create products based on similar
+	designs.</p>
+
+      <p>SMP is now enabled by default in the configuration files for
+	all currently-supported systems that have multi-core processors.
+	This includes systems based on the following processor
+	families:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Allwinner A20</li>
+	<li>Freescale i.MX6</li>
+	<li>Marvell Armada XP</li>
+	<li>Samsung Exynos 5</li>
+	<li>Texas Instruments OMAP4</li>
+      </ul>
+    </body>
+
+    <sponsor>Microsemi, Inc.</sponsor>
+    <sponsor>Semihalf sp.j</sponsor>
+  </project>
 </report>
