[rescue] SBUS expansion box

James Sharp rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Nov 21 14:52:12 CST 2001


> > stick with NetBSD, SMP is there, and will be far better than that which linux
> > uses i'm sure. (especially if it's the same SMP as linux does with x86, the
> > machines we had were faster single proc since linux spent so much time doing
> > context switches with two CPUs)
>
> I keep hearing that netbsd smp WILL be better than linux's SMP.  What  really
> care about though is it now currently better?

Is there even SMP for NetBSD/sparc that's available to the general public?
I know lots of people have been working on it, but I don't think its
available anywhere but their personal source trees.

There's SMP for Alpha and Vax in -current, and for i386 in Bill
Sommerfeld's branch.




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