NAME

core — processor core

SYNOPSIS

core* at cmp?

DESCRIPTION

The core driver provides support for the chip multi-threading processors that have multiple threads such as the Fujitsu SPARC64-VI processors. It is not a physical device as such, but an abstraction to attach individual CPU threads.

SEE ALSO

cmp(4), intro(4)

HISTORY

The core driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.4.

AUTHORS

The core driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>.