Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:25:27 -0500 From: "e" <gldis@cyberbeach.net> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Dorr H. Clark" <dclark@applmath.scu.edu> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MP & FreeBSD Message-ID: <019501c0ae9a$4c6ecba0$0201a8c0@my.domain> References: <15025.36392.539952.340643@guru.mired.org>
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> I'm sure there are people who could be considered to be leading the > development, but I'm not sure who they are. At this point, pretty much > everyone working on the kernel has to deal with SMP. I'd say it's > already a mainstream capability. It's just not enabled by default. I > expect it's of low enough utility that it's deemed not worth the > cost. Then again, it might just cause horrible things to happen on > some older (386 or 486) UP boards. http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/smp/ An SMP kernel won't boot on a UP system. So the lack users with SMP hardware would be the reason for not enabling the SMP code in the GENERIC kernel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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