From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 3 23:30:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08202 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08193 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01974; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:29:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd001952; Thu Sep 3 23:29:37 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA04710; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:29:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809040629.XAA04710@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: SMP Compliant Kernel? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 06:29:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: gc9773@batelco.com.bh, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <2805.904884015@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 3, 98 09:40:15 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I am currently running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my Tyan Dual 120 MHZ system > > and am curious as to when the "Stable" release will incorporate SMP. It > > SMP will never be in -stable. It would represent far too much of an > architectural change and is not in keeping with -stable's charter of > relatively small, incremental features (evolution rather than > revolution). I'm afraid that if SMP is what you want, you're going to > have to wait until 3.0 enters it's own -stable phase in Q1 99. Right -- when 3.x is -stable, then -stable will be SMP. In other words, SMP support requires -stable. 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-hackers" in the body of the message