On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, John Klos wrote:

Q> >     Alright *now* who's ready to finish MI multiprocessor support
:-)~~~
> 
> The dual G4s run with OS 9, so they shouldn't be significantly different
> than the dual/quad 604e machines.

We have spin-up code for the 604e machines (I think I saw tsubai put that
in). Adding spin-up code for these shouldn't be too hard.

> Speaking of G4s: how far along is gcc with Altivec in NetBSD? I met an
> interesting fellow from Yellow Dog Linux (or whoever their parent company
> is) who gave me some interesting info on both Altivec and on booting from
> MacOS. I'll be sending him an email pretty soon.

Apple has patches to gcc to support Altivec. I'm not sure if they've made
it out yet or not.

Take care,

Bill