Subject: Re: sun4m / linux / NetBSD (was stupid flamefest)
To: Charles Lepple <clepple@swift.mitre.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/02/1996 08:23:55
On Tue, 2 Jul 1996 08:01:26 -0400
clepple@swift.mitre.org (Charles Lepple) wrote:
> Perhaps someone could fill me in on the status of multiprocessor Sparc support
> in NetBSD/Sparc. Nobody seems to be touching that part of Miguel's comment.
> Is it there?
A generic SMP solution is in the works for NetBSD. The Linux SMP code,
last I checked, was _totally_ different for the SPARC compared to the
i386.
There's a good chance that NetBSD/sparc will boot on multiprocessor sun4m
systems, just use only one processor (for now).
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