Subject: Re: 2.0 i386 Install Notes: No MP support
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/23/2004 18:56:17
In article <41CB15AC.2080704@berklee.edu>,
	lguillaume@berklee.edu (Louis Guillaume) writes:
> 
> I just noticed this in the "Unsupported Devices" section of the 
> NetBSD-2.0/i386 install notes...
> 
> Hardware the we do not currently support, but get many questions about:
> 
>      * Multiprocessor systems. NetBSD will run, but only use one processor.

> ... Not true, right?

Not true. There are still warts -- "ntp" doesn't work so well on all SMP
systems, and also some SMP systems panic with IPI locking issues -- but
it's quite usable. There's an open PR on the doc bug already.


Frederick