Subject: Re: Multiprocessor Yes/No?
To: Brad Colbert <bcolbert@gotham.accurate-automation.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/23/1996 18:23:33
> Does NetBSD support any multiprocessor machines on the PC side? If so
> which?
NetBSD does not in any way support multiple CPUs(*). Period.
Now, I've seen hints dropped that there are people investigating this
possibility (read: not very soon). The FreeBSD people are way further
along on this, and even theirs isn't integrated into the main source
branch, yet, but is a private set of patches shared among a handful of
SMP developers.
(*) Of course, taken too literally, you could say that graphics
co-processors, FPUs, and bus-mastering controller processors would
also fall under this. Of course, NetBSD supports many bus-mastering
SCSI controllers, FPUs, and via XFree86, many graphics co-processors.
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