Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 release date
To: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/04/2003 16:34:40
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:16:36PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>=20
> On Dec 4, 2003, at 10:54 AM, John Franklin wrote:
>=20
> >What's the crux of the problem?  Lock synchronization?  VM page=20
> >management?
>=20
> Oh, yah, and making the scheduler truly MP-aware, and aware of=20
> asymmetric processor topologies (e.g. HyperThreading).

My understanding is that this problem is the biggie. It's a big-enough=20
problem that it would be a major selling point for a release. Like the=20
main feature of 2.1. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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