Subject: Re: When SMP in formal release? Which OS? Virtual mailboxes
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/28/2002 20:03:31
Perry E. Metzger said:

>Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com> writes:

>> Alpha MP is in -current now. Yes?

>And in 1.6_BETA1, yes.

Great.

>I suspect that we'll need a new snapshot or release for the real
>Clawhammer systems -- the compiler in 1.6 won't support the x86-64,
>and there are lots of fixes going in now that real hardware exists.

That's what I always worry about. There has yet to be a trustworthy
64bit version of GCC for Solaris. While there are good things going
into GCC, it is very Linux-centric.

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