From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 5 23:43:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA13027 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:43:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from loopback (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA13018 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:43:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff.gaynor@ibm.net) Received: from xxx (slip139-92-41-120.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.41.120]) by loopback (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA87446 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 07:43:00 GMT Message-ID: <34B19099.38C4@ibm.net> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 21:02:01 -0500 From: "J. Gaynor" Reply-To: jeff.gaynor@ibm.net Organization: University of Maryland X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD , OS/2 and SMP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kind Mesdames & Sirs, I am interested in running FreeBSD on my workstation. It sounds very good as far as features and stability. My system is a dual processor Pentium with a Tyan 1462 motherboard. I downloaded the test floppy and so far all seems really very nice. The only 3 questions I have are the following: * Does FreeBSD support multi-processor architecture? What are the limitations? (Does the OS farm out threads automatically, or is dependent on the program?) Does your standard C/C++ compiler come with the necessary headers etc. to write SMP-aware applications? * I use Warp Server 4.0 as my standard OS. Is there support for reading HPFS partitions? Do FreeBSD and OS/2 coexist in a friendly fashion on the same system? * I also use System Commander to manage multiple boot configurations. You maintain that multiple boot configurations are allowed, but as near as I can tell, I must use your loader to do this. If you have no direct knowledge of System Commander, then the alternate question to ask is this: Are there any limitations on the installation partition, specifically, can FreeBSD be installed to an extended logical partition, or must it be installed to a primary partition. If it must be installed to a primary partition, does this have to be on the first physical drive (like SCO Unix)? Thank you very much for your time. FreeBSD, with its cross Unix compatibility and features really does look quite excellent. I look forward to hearing from you in the future. Sincerely, Jeffrey J. Gaynor