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

[David Passmore]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:05:47PM -0500, Dave McGuire 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.

Actually, I remember this quite clearly: when I first bought my 4/600 (the
630 chassis, I believe), the group buy where a bunch of us got one-- I asked
you about OS options, and we discussed how NetBSD/sparc was getting SMP
support real soon now. :)

David