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

[Dave McGuire]

On February 14, George Adkins wrote:
> >   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.

  NetBSD/sparc != NetBSD/sparc64...I suspect the delay is caused by
the fact that most of those folks have paying jobs.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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