[rescue] Am I stupid? or does NetBSD not support i386 smp?
George Adkins
george at webbastard.org
Tue Mar 19 23:50:17 CST 2002
> > Seriously, then is that NetBSD SMP locking re-write going to come of age?
> > It, like sparc-smp and *goddess knows* how many other snacktacular
> > improvements have been on the 'Real Soon Now' burner for
> > _How_many_years_?
> >
> > Or are we waiting for NetBSD 4.9.16 for any of these?
>
> I've explained this upteen times by now...the point is that as much
> of the SMP stuff as possible was done in a platform-independent way,
> and as such, took a whole lot longer.
>
> SMP on i386, VAX, and Alpha have been stable for some time.
>
Right, but the question I *asked* was when?
a. Locking
b. Sparc (hopefully ultrasparc too)
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