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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for initiating execution of selected application processors in a clustered multiprocessor system without disrupting the addressing mode of the processors. SOLUTION: Processors are initialized, the addressing mode is set and then each of the processors in an active mode spinning on a designated startup address location. To start application processors 110, 112, the OS simply writes a target processor ID and a desired start-up address into the startup address location. The application processor with the matching processor ID reads the startup address location, jumps to the address specified in the start-up address code section and begins execution at that location. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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