Subject: Re: NetBsd on high speed network devices
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 08/14/2000 00:35:49
David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca> writes:
> >    2. Is there an SMP version of NetBSD for PPC?
> 
> Not yet. Progress is being made on SMP NetBSD, but
> I believe Intel, Alpha, and Sparc will be the first
> to run well. A recent announcement showed some 
> stats running code on a second processor, but it's 
> still early in development.

In particular, the SMP kernel crashes after running for several
minutes. I suspect it will be running in a stable mode fairly soon,
though.

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