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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:48:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006230847470.13965-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000622135656.D845@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>

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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Thursday, 22 June 2000 at 10:07:38 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:34:47PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     Ok, I have put up a web page that will track my efforts.
> >>>
> >>> 	http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSDSmp/
> >>
> >> Your first patchset contains only i386 code.
> >> What is the timeframe for alpha relative to i386?
> >> Will each i386 code step converted to it a short time later or finally
> >> after the i386 code completely has been stabilized?
> >
> >     The alpha code is going to be dealt with by the alpha guys.  I am
> >     not an alpha assembly programmer.  There is going to be considerably
> >     more breakage for the alpha port in the next month then the i386 port,
> >     but hopefully it will get worked out.
> 
> Hmm.  This adds another dependency.  We will really need to get the
> Alpha code in place before we can commit anything.  Is there anybody
> out there who can do this?

If neither Doug nor Andrew have volunteered for this, I'll take it on. 




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