Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 07:51:03 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common Message-ID: <XFMail.010501075103.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010501122352.A39507@freebie.demon.nl>
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On 01-May-01 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:47:17AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 29-Apr-01 Bruce A. Mah wrote: >> > If memory serves me right, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> >> >> On 27-Apr-01 Bruce A. Mah wrote: >> >> > bmah 2001/04/27 15:25:16 PDT >> >> > >> >> > Modified files: >> >> > release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml >> >> > release/texts/alpha RELNOTES.TXT >> >> > release/texts/i386 RELNOTES.TXT >> >> > Log: >> >> > New release note: SMPng on alpha. >> >> >> >> Err, not SMPng per se (SMPng really means multithreading hte kernel, >> >> which >> >> is >> >> a >> >> kernel arch change and is not specific to SMP machines or to any >> >> architecture >> >> , >> >> it changes UP kernels too, which seems to be something many people are >> >> misunderstanding) it's more that we support SMP hardware on the alpha >> >> arch >> >> no >> >> w. >> > >> > Err. Here's the text I actually committed: >> > >> > SMP support for the Alpha is now operational. >> > >> > Did I write a bad commit message or did I write a bad commit message >> > and a bad release note item? :-) >> >> Just a bad commit message I guess. :) SMPng has been working on alpha for >> many >> months now, so it was misleading. The release note is quite fine. > > But it was only working with seperate patchkits right? So not in the CVS > repo. No. Reread my mail. SMPng != SMP. SMPng is multithreading the kernel and consists of things like ithreads, mutexes, etc. SMP is actual hardware support for multiple processors. SMPng affects UP kernels as well as SMP kernels. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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