core(4)

core4

Processor core

Usage

core* at cmp?

Overview

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.

History

The core driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.4.

Authors

The core driver was written by Mark Kettenis ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.