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Re: mostly working SMP again



On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:03 AM, matthew green wrote:

> i think i've notice alpha port sends console output via IPI's to one
> cpu... or something.

No.  On the Alpha, the "console" is an architecture feature that is meant to be 
analogous to the "console processor" of the original VAX systems (that had a 
PDP-11 sitting in front of them to handle things like bootstrap).  It has 
nothing to do with NetBSD's notion of the default terminal.

-- thorpej



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