2.0?!?  Really!  So let me get this timeline (well,
release line) straight:

1.5:  All that can switch to ELF will.
2.0:	UBC.  Threads?
2.1:	MP?
3.0:	SMP?

...or are we going to be wise about this and bypass asymmetric MP
altogether?


--*greywolf;


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank van der Linden [mailto:frank@wins.uva.nl]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 8:46 AM
To: Wenchi Liao
Cc: port-sparc@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: unable to boot with 256MB of RAM


On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 10:38:17AM -0600, Wenchi Liao wrote:
> I saw Be demo once, and the guy said BeOS uses as much free ram
> as possible for cache, and scale back the size of the cache as
> memory-needs increase. To my naive ears, this sounds like a
> better strategy when dealing with free memory (if it's there,
> why not use it?). Comments?

You're right, and not the first person to think of that :-) The code
to do this (and other things) in NetBSD exists, on the "ubc" CVS
branch. It looks like it will be brought in immediately after 1.5,
for inclusion in 2.0.

- Frank