clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> The APs enter Halt state, so to wake them up you trigger whatever event 
> gets a CPU out of Halt... Interrupt, maybe? You COULD possibly read up 
> on it in the System Programmer's Guide; see the link I posted.

So far what I have gathered is this:

The correct answer depends on the processor architecture, of course, but
for example in most Intel-based architectures there's a physical controller
chip named APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) that's used
for, among other things, wake up additional processors/cores and make them
run specified code.

What I still can't figure out is how exactly you tell the APIC to do that.

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