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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2000 13:43:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: SMP code commit iminent
Message-ID:  <200009062043.NAA73340@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009062111530.530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Sep 6, 2000 09:13:49 pm"

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Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:58:32PM -0700, Jason Evans wrote:
> > > this email is a minimum 24 hour notice that SMP code will be committed
> > > to -current.
> > 
> > What is the status of the Alpha bits?  Will we have a working kernel
> > after the commit, or should we site tight for a week while the Alpha bits
> > are tweaked into working status?
> 
> The code should boot - if not, I will follow up with a few cleanup
> commits. The next job for the alpha is to overhaul the interrupt code to
> support irq threads.

The current patchset finished a 3-hour buildworld w/o problems.  Sometime
after the world had finished while I was asleep it had a kernel trap with a
memory management fault however. :(  3 hours of reliable uptime in multi-
user should be enough stability for development however.

> -- 
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 20 8348 3944

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