[rescue] SMP on Open/NetBSD (was: Re: FSCKing OpenBSD!)

[Dave McGuire]

On February 14, Robert Novak wrote:
> > OpenBSD and NetBSD have SMP support on non-x86 platforms.. If you had
> > checked the website you'd see that.
> 
> Which platforms? Can you give references? Or am I falling victim to a
> troll? If so, I apologize to the rest of the list. It must the Vicodin. I
> swear, getting me to go to the dentist is like pulling teeth sometimes. :)
> 
> The usual MP platforms I hear about and pay attention to (and even use)  
> are x86, Alpha, and SPARC. I'm sure a quad processor Atari would be cool,
> but it wouldn't be common (or necessarily useful). So I went to look at
> Alpha and SPARC as examples of non-x86 platforms. With me so far?

  NetBSD has SMP support on Alpha, x86, and VAX.  SPARC is really
close but not working yet.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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