Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

[Paul Brook]

> > Slightly off topic, but AMD has just announced its intention to ship a
> > 4-core Opteron chip in 2007. The 4-core chip will use AMD's upcoming m2
> > socket.
>
> isn't writing a OS for dual (or n) core chips hell ?

It's no different to any other SMP system, and most serious OS have been doing 
that for years. You might want to use slightly different load balancing 
heuristics for big machines, but most big multiprocessor systems are already 
NUMA anyway so that's nothing new.

Paul