From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 22 23:10:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C6537B628 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:10:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000623060949.MEIC26299.relay02@chello.nl>; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:09:49 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA02208; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:39:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:39:25 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Greg Lehey Cc: Matthew Dillon , Bernd Walter , current@freebsd.org, Jason Evans Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Destabilization due to SMP development Message-ID: <20000622233925.A2194@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: <20000619115330.D79318@blitz.canonware.com> <200006200034.RAA81825@apollo.backplane.com> <20000622183817.A18476@cicely8.cicely.de> <200006221707.KAA03498@apollo.backplane.com> <20000622135656.D845@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000622135656.D845@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:56:56PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:56:56PM -0700, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 22 June 2000 at 10:07:38 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:34:47PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >>> > >>> Ok, I have put up a web page that will track my efforts. > >>> > >>> http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSDSmp/ > >> > >> Your first patchset contains only i386 code. > >> What is the timeframe for alpha relative to i386? > >> Will each i386 code step converted to it a short time later or finally > >> after the i386 code completely has been stabilized? > > > > The alpha code is going to be dealt with by the alpha guys. I am > > not an alpha assembly programmer. There is going to be considerably > > more breakage for the alpha port in the next month then the i386 port, > > but hopefully it will get worked out. > > Hmm. This adds another dependency. We will really need to get the > Alpha code in place before we can commit anything. Is there anybody > out there who can do this? I think (but am not sure!) that dfr was working on SMP for axp some time ago? -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message