From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Apr 22 6:13: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from babel.spoiled.org (babel.spoiled.org [212.84.234.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E29B37B422 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list-freebsd.alpha@spoiled.org) Received: (qmail 8089 invoked by uid 8); 22 Apr 2001 13:12:56 -0000 From: thomas graichen Reply-To: thomas graichen X-Newsgroups: spoiled.freebsd.alpha Subject: Re: SMP is stable now. Whee! :) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:04:53 +0200 Organization: spoiled dot org Lines: 40 Distribution: local Message-ID: References: Reply-To: thomas graichen X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@spoiled.org User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.3-XFS (i586)) To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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 -- 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 ... 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