From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 31 9:24:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from viking.sophos.com (viking.sophos.com [193.82.145.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D58F37B5E8 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 09:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmb@tyne.sophos.com) Received: from tyne.sophos.com (tyne.sophos.com [193.82.145.132]) by viking.sophos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0354B45C41; Wed, 31 May 2000 16:24:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tmb@localhost) by tyne.sophos.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA07570; Wed, 31 May 2000 17:24:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from tmb) Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:24:32 +0100 From: Mark Blackman To: Chuck Paterson Cc: Luoqi Chen , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preemptive kernel on older X86 hardware Message-ID: <20000531172432.A7547@sophos.com> References: <200005301715.LAA27213@berserker.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005301715.LAA27213@berserker.bsdi.com>; from cp@bsdi.com on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:15:54AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On a nearly unrelated note, anybody care to venture how tough would it be to modify *BSD* to run on a NUMA system instead of an SMP solution. This, obviously, is very high-end tiny niche area, but interesting to contemplate, especially if you're not doing the development. :) -- Mark Blackman,Internet Systems Administrator,Sophos Anti-Virus e-mail: tmb@sophos.com http://www.sophos.com US Support: +1 888 SOPHOS 9 UK Support: +44 1235 559933 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message