From: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Boot cpu != cpu 0 ?
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:33:58 +0300
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Hi

How hard it could be to build a system on multi-core arm hardware, that has 
linux SMP running in cores other than 0th ?

Say, if bootloader starts kernel on hardware core 1, will kernel be able to 
work (and use cores 1,2,3 on 4-core hardware) after some tweaking? 
Or "boot cpu" concept is uncouplable from "hardware core 0" by 
architecture? 

I'm asking because there is a project with a strict requerement to have 
core 0 reserved and not touched by linux, and I need to understand how 
realistic it is.

Thanks for any hints.

Nikita
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