Thanks, eventhough the info is not encouraging me to
lean towards NetBSD. We are trying to see if we can
use the NetBSD for our switch for the future release.
I wanted to see if it is worthwhile to take a look at
the NetBSD among other RTOS like Vxworks, pSOS and
may be embedded Linux. We need a distributed system
for HA which the legacy RTOSes lack.
-jk

--- "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Perry E. Metzger		perry@wasabisystems.com
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