Subject: SMP on SparcStation
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Sebastian Krohn <seb@darksystem.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/07/2002 23:26:07
Hi there!

I've got an old SparcStation 20 with two 75MHz CPUs.

Since I'm using NetBSD on Intel as my favorite OS I'd like to run this
Box on NetBSD, too. But the NetBSD Site Says that there is no SMP in
the current Sparc Port.

Anyone knows if there will be changes in the future?
Nobody interestet in such a feature?
Or are there other Problems?

OpenBSD doesen't support SMP-Boxes at all (it will not even boot :-( )
and FreeBSD has only a sparc64-Port.
Are there any other Free Unix-Style OSes which supports SMP on those
Computers? Whats about Linux?

I'm only a Student so I haven't enough money to get an Solaris-licence.

so long,
    Sebastian