Subject: Re: SMP/flogging a dead horse
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/31/1998 14:59:14
Mason Loring Bliss writes:
> Speaking of which... Can someone who's familiar with FreeBSD's implementation
> of SMP comment how how relevant it would be to us? I don't know if it's bound
> too tightly to the Intel architecture or not, but it would seem to make sense
> to leverage the work, if it's worthwhile.
There is already a fully funded project that is working on
multithreading our kernel, so there isn't really much cause to port
the FreeBSD code.
.pm