Subject: Re: NetBSD Sparc64 SMP
To: NetBSD Port Sparc64 <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/23/2005 00:38:18
On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:36 AM, Rick Kelly wrote:
>>   Earlier someone stated that the main kernel people have all the SMP
>> hardware they need to continue development...So I have to ask, what 
>> can
>> the user community do to move SMP development forward?  There is
>> clearly a great deal of desire, and the hardware is there.  The 
>> biggest
>> problem from what I've seen over the years is lack of time.  So what
>> would motivate the Powers That Be to take some time away from other
>> projects, sleep, etc., to hack on this?
>
> One problem may well be a lack of technical documentation. Sun gave a 
> lot of
> stuff to Linux system developers.

   Didn't they also give a ton of stuff to the FreeBSD crowd?  I wonder 
what their terms were.

          -Dave

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