Subject: Re: Bugs being fixed.
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Robert Byer <byer@carl.all-net.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/28/1997 11:25:23
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>
>>   On another subject...Awhile back, I heard somewhere that there's a
>> group of folks working on some sort of multiprocessing support for
>> NetBSD.  Has anyone heard about this?  I've got a VAXstation 3540
>> hangin' out here with four CPUs.  That'd be fun. :)
>>
>I did a hack a while back to start the second CPU on a 8350, and got
>it to do some nasty things. It's very easy to kick off the other CPUs,
>just a few lines of code, compared to a Dual PPro 200 which required
>~700 lines of code just to find out that there are an extra CPU :-)
>

I would be interested in a multi-processor version of NetBSD as I have two
VAX 6000-340 with 4 processors each and 128 MEG RAM that I would like to 
run NetBSD on as they are now running VAX/VMS.


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