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Date:      Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:49:08 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        murray@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/6.1R todo.sgml
Message-ID:  <20060126064908.4bc6215d.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060126101706.GJ36965@submonkey.net>
References:  <200601260957.k0Q9vCUn054132@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060126101706.GJ36965@submonkey.net>

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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:17:06 +0000
Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:57:12AM +0000, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > murray      2006-01-26 09:57:12 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en/releases/6.1R     todo.sgml 
> >   Log:
> >   Add kbdmux and sysinstall smp kernel install items from the ideas page
> >   to the 6.1 Desired Features list.
> 
> I think it's a little late to mess with sysinstall to that extent
> for 6.1.  Sounds like the kind of thing that could sit in -CURRENT for
> months, but hardly anyone would actually be using it.  It seems that the
> main problem with sysinstall is that hardly any of our developers use
> it.
> 
> On to the question: how often does an SMP kernel fail to boot where a
> UP one might work?  I remember that this used to be a problem, but if
> it's still "too often", can we have just the bits that probe for an
> mptable (or however we determine that there is more that one processor)
> in the UP kernel without suffering that instability?
> 
> What I'm basically asking is how much of the SMP code is really required
> just to detect MP hardware?

*I* have not had many problems.  Ok, I've had none.

-- 
Tom Rhodes



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