Re: PPC port to Amiga's with PowerUP or other PPC cards

[Ruben van Staveren <ruben%luna.net@localhost>]

> 
> It certainly would be cute to have the companion cpu run m68k binaries,
> but I predict that the difficulties:
> 
> - synchronizing caches on cross-cpu context switch
> - translating syscalls (ok, the fake-netbsd-m68k kernel would solely
> consist of the syscll translation mechanism)
> 
> will prevent its easy implementation. 

Symmetric Multi Vendor Multi Processing, not in my lifetime...

A SMP machine independant system for NetBSD would be nice though :)

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