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From: bri@qualcomm.com (Brian Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Dual/Quad Pentium servers
Date: 19 Sep 1994 09:48:07 -0600
Organization: QUALCOMM, Incorporated; San Diego, CA, USA
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Jack F. Vogel <jackv@orpheus.Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
>The answer is unfortunately NO, NONE of the free BSD variants will
>run MP. Of course I don't know the hardware, but I owuld guess that
>it will RUN on the machine, it just won't initialize or do anything
>with the other CPUs.
>
>As someone who has worked on a couple of MP kernels, if someone
>wants to donate an MP motherboard (I will even foot the bill for
>the CPUs :-), I would LOVE to work on MP extensions to FreeBSD :-).
Jack, if you mean you've worked on the Solaris kernel, then I'm sure
you know how drastically the kernel had to be re-engineered to go
from SunOS 4.x. Frankly, I don't think the *BSD kernels could ever
be made to run reliably on a symetric multiprocessing platform.
>Your only real MP options are commercial OS's right now.
Solaris 2.3 is a fine OS, and I understand that the newly released 2.3
for x86 is built from the same source tree as the Sparc version.
-brian
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