"Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@crufty.net> writes:

> >So, what's the current state of the smp for sparc? I have an old Quad
> >SS20 that I'm thinking of installing NetBSD on.
> 
> Depends on your cpus.  If you have Ross Hypersparc's as in:

It's four

501-2780  SUN  SM52X SPARC MODULE W/CACHE, 3.5

Havn't actually tried netbooting NetBSD yet, I havn't decided if
I want to run it on my Ultra1 instead. Do you think it's
possible to get it running on those, i.e. is it worth the time
trying? If not, I just go for the Ultra1 instead! ;-)

> cpu0 at mainbus0: RT620/625 @ 100 MHz, on-chip FPU
> 
> then, no it doesn't work.  These particular cpu's need some extra help
> wrt cache coherency, and I don't know that anyone has the needed docs
> to fix it.  (I've got four of those cpu's as well ;-)

Too bad. Maybe try to get an NDA with Sun wich enables us to
view the documentation and release the code we write, but not
the documentation. I think that what we got with Intel regarding
the Gigabit network driver, or something.

-- 
tobias