Subject: Re: some stupid question I had to ask
To: Emre <emre@iris.vsrc.uab.edu>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/15/1999 15:33:41
> Heh, just curious...what's the purpose of those patches?  So are you
> saying they will only make the other processor show up on dmesg and that's
> it?

There are several parts to the SMP work; there's machine-independant
scheduler and other work, plus machine dependant work for each netbsd
port which can have multiple processors.

These patches are not really useful for an end user, but well, before
the second procesor can run, it has to crawl.  

					- Bill