From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 20:10:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA09094 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:10:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA09087 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 20:10:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA04536; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:06:54 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603290406.VAA04536@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: MP? To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:06:54 -0700 (MST) Cc: yves@CC.McGill.CA, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Mar 28, 96 06:09:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi all, > > > > Does FreeBSD support multiple CPU's yet? Any plans? Foreseable future? > > > > (talk about quick questions ;-)) > > > > Hey Terry...you should do a weekly cron message out to -questions > for this *grin* > > Yves...Terry Lampert has been working on MP support, but it is > not inherent in the standard kernel, you have to get various patches for > it to work. I'm not sure how far along it is (ie. I know Terry had it > up on 2 CPUs...not sure about more then that). > > I've also heard that someone at Intel is working with Terry on > this...but that is unsubstiated, in that I believe Terry mentioned it > once, but I could be misquoting. I owe him some code for a week now. I have been dead at work, and haven't had much to play with the SMP code lately. I promise I will send it out Saturday, latest. 8-(. > Also, I *believe* you have to be running one of the older -current > kernels for the patches to work. 28 Oct 1994. 8-(. Unless you want to fix locore.s. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.