And - bingo! The box boots. Way cool!
   
   Since this is a -current kernel running on 1.6 userland - is the kernel all
   I need for smp, or would I have to update (parts of) the userland, too?
   top(1), e.g., still reports all processes are running on cpu #0.

oh, there is an #if 0 in sparc/locore.s that is not yet enabled, you will
have to do this...
   
   >	- Greg (who's looking forward to finally being able to upgrade
   >		his SPARCserver 20/712 from 1.4.2 once there's a stable
   >		release with SMP support ... 1.6.2?  1.7?  Anyone?  Bueller?)
   
   1.7, I suppose, since the changes are part of the cvs trunk.


correct.  this will not appear on the 1.6 branch.


.mrg.