Subject: Re: Announce: DEC AlphaServer 8400 is coming
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/20/2005 16:27:31
> 
> On Jul 18, 2005, at 12:08 AM, James Buchanan wrote:
> 
> > My understanding from the NetBSD FAQ is that NetBSD will use only  
> > one of its CPUs.  I hope to change this and work on NetBSD Alpha to  
> > use all available CPUs.  Anyone who wants to help is welcome.
> 
> It is possible that multi-cpu operation will, in fact, work on these  
> systems now.  When that FAQ was written, NetBSD did not have MP support.
> 
> Of course, it could be broken, too :-)  I worked with 8200/8400  
> systems for several years, and I will be happy to provide insight on  
> that hardware platform when needed, as my (unfortunately somewhat  
> constrained) time allows.
> 
I have an 8400 with 4 CPUs, and it works but under heavy load 
it will hang. The same if it have an non-SMP kernel.  I haven't had
time to debug it yet though...

-- Ragge