From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Sep 20 15:22:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21475 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21407 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:22:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11103; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:21:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd011043; Sun Sep 20 15:21:41 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03897; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 15:21:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809202221.PAA03897@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: smp ?? To: panic@antix.org (Jason Beazell) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:21:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980920131928.00bb9570@satan.antix.org> from "Jason Beazell" at Sep 20, 98 01:19:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What versions of Freebsd support smp? A friend of mine, and Freebsd user, > tells me that there is a patch for 2.2.7, but I can't find it anywhere. The initial work on SMP was done by Jack Vogel, of Sun Microsystems, who also did a SPARC port ofr FreeBSD 1.1.5. There is a patch available for 2.2.x-current, checked out as of 00:00 GMT 27 October 1995. I put some effort into updating this code to make it work with 2.2.x-current as of 21:06 06 June 1996, and it was the basis for the code that Peter Wemm and Steve Passe made work, and from which the current SMP code is derived. There is no intention to back-port the updated code to -stable; it could be done in perhaps 40 hours, but would require a good working knowledge of locor.s, the Intel 1.4 SMP specification, and (IMO) "vi' wiring in your medula oblogata to achive in that time frame. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message