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Date:      Tue, 06 May 1997 15:26:55 -0600
From:      Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
To:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: One last call for a show of hands on the ALPHA port... 
Message-ID:  <199705062126.PAA01309@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 1997 14:04:53 PDT." <199705062104.OAA21144@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> 

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Hi,

> In general, though, if FreeBSD is going to even bother with the alpha:
> 
> 	(2) change your "SMP" model... the current FreeBSD SMP code
> 	    seems to be the wrong approach to me.  It feels like there
> 	    is a bunch of "this is a PC operating system" assumptions
> 	    in code that's in sys/kern (i.e. init_smp.c).  Also,

this is true, primarily because it evolved in an OS that is only a
PC operating system (at this point).  I want to see the alpha docs now
so that I can start to rethink the model in a more portable way.

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