Subject: Re: Bugs being fixed.
To: Robert Byer <byer@carl.all-net.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/29/1997 12:09:21
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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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