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From: ggrant@crl.com (Gary E. Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does NetBSD support for multi-CPU (Sparc ) ?
Date: 16 May 1995 11:40:55 -0700
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In article <3p9j29$23v@netnews.ntu.edu.tw>,
³¯©[ªQ <song@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>
>Does NetBSD support for multi-CPU ? especially Sparc CPU. 
>Thanks.
>
>							Kun-song Chen

NO.. What you need first is a thread-safe CLIB, then you need to 
threadsafe the kernel...  Then you need to multithread the kernel, then 
multithread the drivers, revamp the scheduler ... etc