From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jun 20 12:25:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD4B37B5CC for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17728; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:25:44 -0700 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:25:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Matthew Dillon Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP discussion moving to freebsd-smp In-Reply-To: <200006201924.MAA88045@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > :> 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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message