I just looked in the releng (almost) daily builds for the sparc. I didn't
see a GENERIC.MP kernel.

I would like to try it in a quad-processor SS10 that I have without having
to download and compile the source. Can you start compiling a GENERIC.MP
kernel with the (almost) sparc daily build?

At 10:17 PM 1/15/03 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:08:03PM -0500, Bill Meahan wrote:
>> I have a nice little SS20 sitting around doing nothing useful that I'd
>
>wrong list, for a SS20 you want port-sparc. port-sparc64 is for
>ultrasparc-based machines
>
>> like to try out NetBSD SMP on. Dual SM81's, full load of RAM, two
>> Seagate
>> Cheetah 2.5G disks. And a fast DSL connection to the 'net.
>> 
>> Right now the box is loaded with Solaris 9 (for evaluation purposes
>> only!!!). What is the quickest and easiest way to transition the box?
>> The obvious method is to install 1.6, download lots of source, rebuild
>> the kernel as an MP kernel, yada, yada, yada. After (too many) years of
>> systems work, I'm getting a bit lazy.
>> 
>> Is there an easier/quicker way?
>
>There are daily builds (well, every 2 days really, there's too much to
>do for one day :) of current available:
>ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/current/
>pick the more recent directory with sparc binaries. There may even be
>a prebuild GENERIC.MP kernel.
>
>-- 
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
>--
>
>

Michael Thompson
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