Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:04:53 +0200 From: thomas graichen <list-freebsd.alpha@spoiled.org> To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SMP is stable now. Whee! :) Message-ID: <news2mail-20010422090453.26A91690.NOFFLE@gray.example.com> References: <XFMail.010420190822.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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this is really funny - looks like FreeBSD and NetBSD got SMP working on the alpha at about exactly the same time (jason thorpe just posted that he got it working a few hours ago too :-) ... cool work of both camps ... t John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hey all. > Drew, Doug, and I have finally gotten this thing mostly whipped. I haven't > done a buildworld yet, but I've built kernels and then booted them without any > problems. There are still some issues with some of the accounting on SMP > systems, but UP systems should run fine with the current set of outstanding > patches. I'd appreciate it if people could test the current set of patches. > You can find them at: > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.smp.patch > So far this has been tested on a dual 4100 with both SMP and UP kernels. > Drew has found a problem with critical_enter/exit, but other than that I expect > it to run fine on SMP 2100's as well. Also, SMP is noticably faster than UP on > the 4100 I have here to test on at least, which is a good thing. :) > Thanks for testing. > -- > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- thomas graichen <tgr@spoiled.org> ... perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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