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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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