[rescue] looking for some items

[Sevan / Venture37]

On 23 Apr 2010, at 09:29 PM, Simon Fryer <fryers at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 April 2010 20:08, Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23/04/2010 20:52, Simon Fryer wrote:
>>>
>>> If is a pity that you are not in the UK. After just discovering that
>>> NetBSD SMP is no longer working, my SS20 has become a lot less  
>>> useful.
>>> :(
>>
>> What's wrong with the code??
>
> I just upgraded from an ancient version of NetBSD to 5.0.2, loaded the
> MP kernel and got a Trap almost immediatly after the kernel worked out
> how much memory was active.
>
> After a bit of reading on the NetBSD FAQs it notes that SMP is broken
> for sparc after version 4.
>
> I don't know what the problem is. It has been a while since I have
> used NetBSD (I am more an Open person) and I am just getting my head
> around it.
>
> If you are interested, I'll grab the text from the console.

That's ok, I was just wondering, it's a Shame it's broken, I wonder if  
this is related to all the code the had to scrap pre version 5 because  
it was FUBAR'd


Sevan