Subject: Re: Re: SMP on SPARC64
To: None <ogdenk@vacoxmail.com>
From: Adrian Portelli <adrian.p@bigpond.net.au>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/04/2003 10:00:03
That sounds right to me. I tried 5.0-Release on a SMP Sparc64 and it
does not support the on board SCSI controller yet.

Adrian.

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:21:37PM -0500, ogdenk@vacoxmail.com wrote:
> I don't think FreeBSD supports the SCSI controller on the Ultra 2 though or have they just not updated their pages in a while?
> 
> --Kevin
> > 
> > From: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
> > Date: 2003/04/03 Thu PM 06:13:00 EST
> > To: ogdenk@vacoxmail.com
> > CC: port-sparc64@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: SMP on SPARC64
> > 
> > * On 2003-04-04 at 00:07 BST, ogdenk@vacoxmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > I've got a Sun Ultra 2 dual CPU machine here at work.  Is SMP
> > > supported yet under NetBSD/sparc64 or will I have to run Solaris for a
> > > while?
> > 
> > You can still run NetBSD/sparc64 fine, as I do on the Ultra2 under my
> > desk at work, however it won't utilise the 2nd CPU.  There is no clear
> > project for doing this work, but there are people looking at it.
> > 
> > > I'd much rather run NetBSD though, Slowlaris is a pig.
> > 
> > FreeBSD 5.0 can do SMP on sparc64, fwiw.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jonathan Perkin - Internet Operations Engineer - BBC Internet Services
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> >