Designing an MPCI layer for a heterogeneous system requires special considerations by the developer. RTEMS is designed to eliminate many of the problems associated with sharing data in a heterogeneous environment. The MPCI layer need only address the representation of thirty-two (32) bit unsigned quantities.
For more information on supporting a heterogeneous system, refer the Supporting Heterogeneous Environments in the Multiprocessing Manager chapter.
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