From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 6 14:27:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA06269 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA06255; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA01309; Tue, 6 May 1997 15:26:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199705062126.PAA01309@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Jason Thorpe cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One last call for a show of hands on the ALPHA port... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 1997 14:04:53 PDT." <199705062104.OAA21144@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 15:26:55 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD