From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 4 00:24:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15410 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15405 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:24:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@best.com) Received: from localhost (jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) with SMTP id AAA14647; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:23:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shell6.ba.best.com: jkb owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 00:23:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " X-Sender: jkb@shell6.ba.best.com To: Terry Lambert cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP Compliant Kernel? In-Reply-To: <199809040629.XAA04710@usr05.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If this does not belong to -hackers, excuse me then. What is the future of FreeBSD in term of after 3.0? Will there be concurrent 4.0 development with a lot of radical and non mission critical code? Or will releases just stay around 3.x for a year or so? If there will be 4.0 as soon as 3.0 is out, what are some of the cool features that 4.0 will have - merced port? Alpha? -- Yan (just curios) Koum I don't have the password + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: >> > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message