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+Hello Immanuel,
+
+About manycores, we did a lot of work on that topic in our lab
+(Sorbonne Universit=C3=A9/LIP6). I send you a reference toward the
+project we developed. This is a huge lot of work and may take
+a lot of time to understand. But, we made a real chip with
+16 cores to prove it works (and it do work). I cannot give you
+more technical information as it not my field of expertise.
+
+You must distinguish two case:
+
+* Multi cores ( < 16) in that case, simpler solutions can be
+ used.
+
+* Many cores ( > 16) in this case, the TSAR project can be
+ of interest.
+
+TSAR (Tera-Scale ARchitecture).
+
+You can see details here:
+ https://www-soc.lip6.fr/trac/tsar
+
+Best regards,
+
+
+PS: Already signaled it to Luke.
+
+
+On Tue, 2020-03-24 at 11:51 +0000, Immanuel, Yehowshua U wrote:
+> I=E2=80=99ve read through the Spike page and a good portion of the simple=
+V page.
+>=20
+> My two goals at the moment are:
+> 1. Understand how RISCV handles multiple processes and does page walking
+> 2. Understand how multicore ROSCV would work
+>=20
+> I=E2=80=99m hoping to play with FreeRTOS soon so I can run through its co=
+debase for setting up
+> page tables.
+> Also, do you know if spike tests the special instructions like exception =
+instructions?
+> Also, what RISCV instructions would a kernel use to set up the pagetables=
+?
+>=20
+> Lastly, do you know any good resources for intro to multicore systems? RI=
+SCV doesn=E2=80=99t
+> seem to have any multicore specific instructions. My current questions wo=
+uld include
+> things like:
+>=20
+> 1. How can the kernel assign tasks to a certain core? If you have a proce=
+ss with
+> multiple threads, it would make sense to spread out the threads among ava=
+ilable
+> processors instead of concentrating them on a single core. How might this=
+ work with
+> respect to RISCV?
+>=20
+> 2. Does the hardware ensure cache coherency - that is - externally - soft=
+ware sees one
+> big cache all though I imagine each core would have a local cache that wo=
+uld have to
+> communicate with other caches?
+>=20
+> Yehowshua
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