From owner-cvs-all Tue May 1 7:53:53 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2FF37B43C; Tue, 1 May 2001 07:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f41ErlK20553; Tue, 1 May 2001 07:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f41Ep3H47462; Tue, 1 May 2001 07:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010501122352.A39507@freebie.demon.nl> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 07:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, "Bruce A. Mah" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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