Subject: Re: NetBSD2.0/sparc not ready for prime time?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Tom Uban <uban@ubanproductions.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/01/2005 07:34:49
At 09:26 AM 2/1/2005 +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:06:46AM -0600, Tom Uban wrote:
> > Yes, but as has already been stated, the IPX is sun4c which is different.
>
>There have been reports that threaded programs don't work on sun4c, see
>
>  http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=25633
>
>(and note that it's not realy clear if this is limited to sun4c).
>There are also known problems with all sparc{,64} machines when threaded
>programs start swapping.

Thanks for the pointer. Is there a list of which standard applications
(i.e. those which come in the NetBSD 2.0/sparc release) are compiled with
threads enabled? So far I know of bind.

Of the non-standard applications, I know of apache 2.0 httpd.

--tnx
--tom