Subject: Re: When SMP in formal release? Which OS? Virtual mailboxes
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/28/2002 20:29:50
Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com> writes:
> >It is hard to give time estimates. However, the i386 MP code should be
> >integrated into the head very soon, which means the next formal
> >release after 1.6 will almost certainly have it.
> 
> Alpha MP is in -current now. Yes?

And in 1.6_BETA1, yes.

> How about clawhammer? Initial real, shipped Clawhammer systems are going
> to be 2 processor systems, if the rumors are right.

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.

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