From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 25 2: 9:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFC037BCA4; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13H0eR-000Nta-0C; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:05:24 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA84588; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:07:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:05:56 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Jacob Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tincup has arrived ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > AFAIK there are multiple SMP alphas around in the project. AS4100, AS2100 > > Two 2 processor 8200s at NASA/Ames... > > > come mind. I think it is more a lack of programming time that keeps > > alpha/SMP from taking off in the short term. > > Supposedly Doug Rabson has this mostly in hand. Doug- where are you with > this? It's too late for 4.1, but how about that new bus attach code and the > SMP single lock stuff.... (matt salivates....) The aftermath of moving house has soaked up a lot more time than I expected and what limited FreeBSD time I had pre-4.1 was used in merging other stuff. I'll be getting back to this RSN, I promise.. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8348 3944 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message