Subject: Re: current smp support on pentium
To: Nathan Langford <nathanl@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-smp
Date: 10/19/2001 18:22:16
Nathan Langford <nathanl@eden.rutgers.edu> writes:
> I'm getting a hand-me-down pentiumII dual processor server and I'm curious
> as to NetBSD's current support of SMP in relation to other opensource
> projects.  Can anyone comment?  Thanks.

There is support for SMP for the i386, but it isn't in the mainline
-- it is still on a branch. Many people are running it though, and it
seems to work fine. (Alpha and some other platforms have their SMP
support in the mainline.)

Perry
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