[rescue] NetBSD/SPARC SMP?

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Sat Apr 20 01:04:08 CDT 2002


> On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 20:17, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > NetBSD/sparc do SMP yet?
> >
> > I'm about to build a quad-HyperSPARC box, and was thinking about playing with
> > non-Solaris..
>
> Yes, but only from CVS.  1.5.2 doesn't do SMP, but it will boot, and
> then you can compile a new kernel, I think.  Haven't tried it yet,
> something fishy about the drives that I have (darnit, I've got 10 of
> these things, too).
> 	Greg

Does it actually DO SMP now?  Its been detecting and sort-of spinning up
secondary processors for quite some time now, but last I looked, there was
no code in the kernel scheduler to let it put processes on any secondary
processors...and they were still also having odd-ball locking problems
with hypersparcs.



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