Subject: Re: NetBSD Sparc64 SMP
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/22/2005 15:05:11
Martin Husemann said:

>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.

My wish list would be to first nail down the problems in uniprocessor sparc64
and then SMP.

My main webserver, www.rmkhome.com, is now running NetBSD 2.0.1 for about 30
days, and it ran 2.0rc3 for 160 days prior to that. However, on my first
attempt to cvs update the src for 2.0.1 it did a "sleep() sleeps forever".

Also, I would like to see support for X finally nailed down, so that I can use
sparc64 as my desktop machine. Sun hardware is just more reliable than intel
and amd commodity crap.

I have about 18 systems here, only 4 of them are x86.

I would be happy if I could set up an Ultra 60 as my desktop machine and a
nice 4 processor E450 to run all my NFS needs. :-)
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