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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:25:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP discussion moving to freebsd-smp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006201224170.12031-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006201924.MAA88045@apollo.backplane.com>

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> :>     I think alpha work can begin when I make the SP (single processor)
> :>     patches available.  I would recommend sticking to SP alpha builds
> :>     probably for a few months until our i386 MP work (which is mostly
> :>     machine independant) is reasonably stable.  (does alpha even have an MP
> :>     build yet?).
> :
> :Doug was 'real close' last I heard.
> :
> :Okay, I'll drop working on FreeBSD until next year then. 'so long.
> :
> :-matt
> 
>     All I am saying here is that the BSDI SMP merge work will turn the
>     MP build into a moving target for the next month at least, and it
>     wouldn't be a very good use of time trying to keep the alpha build 
>     in sync for the MP build until after the API's have settled down.  The
>     SP build is another story... I expect those API's to settle down within
>     a week.

I understood that, thank you. Bonne journee...









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