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#! rnews 1225 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!demon!not-for-mail From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Does NetBSD support for multi-CPU (Sparc ) ? Date: 19 May 1995 13:51:27 +0100 Organization: Domino: Are you dreaming while you sleep Lines: 20 Sender: news@news.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <199505191216.NAA12914@doublesix.domino.org> References: <3p9j29$23v@netnews.ntu.edu.tw> <3parjn$gtd@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dispatch.demon.co.uk X-Posting-Host: doublesix.domino.org In article <3parjn$gtd@crl.crl.com>, Gary E. Grant <ggrant@crl.com> wrote: >In article <3p9j29$23v@netnews.ntu.edu.tw>, >[Q <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 > So what are you waiting for :-) I'd love a SPARC su4m port of NetBSD :-) Regards, Neil