Subject: Re: SMP support
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@canolog.ninthwonder.com>
From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/07/1998 20:50:43
Allen Briggs wrote:
> 
> > NetBSD-current does not yet support SMP. Work is underway
> > to implement kernel threads, which are mostly running, AFAIK.
> > SMP will be built on to of them.
> 
> If you look at the port-alpha archives, there was a message at the
> end of September from Jason Thorpe about getting a second processor
> on MP Alphas running.  It's not SMP, and I don't know what the current
> status of that work is.

Yes, that was for Alpha, and Paul Kranenburg did the same for Sparc.
IIRC, this was just starting the other processors to get them up
and running. This didn't include any locks or changed scheduler or ...
:-)

But it was a first step,

  Guenther