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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:05:41 -0700
Organization: Me
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Message-ID: <31859FA5.50C890C9@lambert.org>
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John S. Dyson wrote:
]
] In article <4lr4q9$788@agate.berkeley.edu>,
] Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
] >
] >FreeBSD doesn't support SMPs. However, if you have the source code
]
] The RELEASED Linux kernels don't support SMP!!! More misinfo
] from Nick!!! FreeBSD-SMP will be out, but we tend to be very
] careful in our estimations of what really works.
]
] If you want to experiment, you can do so with FreeBSD (Terry
] is running that effort right now), or you can do so with
] the EXPERIMENTAL Linux kernels.
Actually, Peter Wemm is the guy doing commits, and Poul-Henning
Kamp is the guy doing assembly code. I'm currently puttering
around with kernel reentrancy and granularity; there's plenty
to do for everyone.
I'm just annoying any time anyone mentions doing something that
smacks of being anti-SMP. If you want to call that "running
things"... 8-). I think deciding which code does or doesn't get
checked in is closer to the mark, personally.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.