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

[George Adkins]

On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:05 pm, you wrote:
> On February 14, David Passmore wrote:
> > >   NetBSD has SMP support on Alpha, x86, and VAX.  SPARC is really
> > > close but not working yet.
> >
> > C'mon Dave, don't get anybody's hopes up. I've been hearing NetBSD SMP
> > support for SPARC is really close since 1996.
>
>   Uhh, what?  The SPARC-specific code wasn't even started until
> sometime last year.
>
>   The vast majority of NetBSD's SMP support is machine-independent,
> which is why it took so long.  Now that most of the work is done, all
> that remains is the machine-specific stuff for each architecture.  To
> wit, VAX SMP support came a matter of weeks after the first SMP
> platform, Alpha.
>
then why the hell is Sparc taking so damn long?  I have an Ultra2 that's just 
*crying* to have Sparc64/SMP NetBSD on it.

of course that means I'd need Creator3D framebuffer support as well...

George