[rescue] Am I stupid? or does NetBSD not support i386 smp?

[George Adkins]

> >   Dudage it was *rock solid* upwards of a year ago...I'm sure it's
> > fine...it's just not merged into the main tree yet 'cause they're
> > waiting for the next major release.
>
> The last time I talked to Bill Sommerfeld, the main problem was that
> introducing the multiprocessor code into the main cvs branch created some
> funky instabilities with single processor machines.
>
> But I agree with Dave...if you get the kernel built, it should be pretty
> damn solid.  Its just a matter of Bill keeping his branch synced with the
> -current branch, which has been undergoing lots of scheduler changes
> lately in preparation for a native threads implementation.
>

egads, I hope these will be standard POSIX threads, not some bastardized 
abomination designed from the get-go to be incompatible with the world's 
existing software base implementation like that other ...  erm,  thing.

George