Subject: Re: What's up with sparc SMP?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/21/2003 15:20:20
Berd Sieker wrote:
> On 21.03.03, 16:03:26, Bill Meahan wrote:
> 
> Btw, -current runs fine with SMP on my SS20 (dual SuperSPARC-II, 75MHz).
> 
>> Whazzup?
> 
> Easy enough.  2.0 will be the first release to include SMP on any
> architecture.
> 
> Such major features are never introduced in minor releases, i. e.
> between 1.6 and 1.6.1.  Those are only patch releases, that contain
> mostly bugfixes and occasionally some new, well-tested drivers.

<raises eyebrows>

This is a change.

Back on January 6th, Hauke Fath said 1.7 would be a stable release
with SMP support.  And later on, Matthew Green confirmed it.

Has 1.7 been abandoned and become 2.0?  Inquiring minds ...

	- Greg