Subject: Re: NetBSD Sparc64 SMP
To: James Cornell <unixpenguin2004@earthlink.net>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/22/2005 22:31:45
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 01:13:17PM -0800, James Cornell wrote:

> In the future I hope to see a formal release of SMP for Sparc64 in the next
> release of NetBSD.

Sorry to be the messenger, but NetBSD 3.0 will not have working SMP on
sparc64. And neither will 2.1 (of course). This is not cast in concrete
yet, but anything else is highly unlikely.

> no one has had time to even attempt to implement SMP support natively in the
> NetBSD kernel for Sparc64 processors.

This is not true. The code is in the tree but noone sent patches to fix the
remaining bugs. Send-pr is your friend.

Martin