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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/
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