From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 8 14: 4: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2281B37B663 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:03:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12SoYZ-000581-0K; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:03:52 +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 WAA44116; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:09:52 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 22:06:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Waite, Michael" , "'Rob Harris'" , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smp on alpha? In-Reply-To: <23481.952546633@zippy.cdrom.com> 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 Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > You should ask Jordan Hubbard that question. > > We are trying to do our part with the equipment. > > Just as soon as Doug Rabson's Alpha arrives in the UK, I'm looking > forward to a greatly increased pace of development on Alpha/SMP. As it happens, I was working on some of the groundwork for this just this morning. I'm confident that given the hardware I can get smp going fairly easily. Also, since the kernel already supports SMP for the x86 port, I imagine that the changes will be self-contained enough to be suitable for the 4.x branch. If all goes well, I expect 4.1 to ship with SMP support. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message