From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 4 12:06:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11752 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11663 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02106; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:05:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199806041905.OAA02106@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: future of slpha port In-Reply-To: <199806041451.WAA24637@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jun 4, 98 10:51:53 pm" To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:05:32 -0500 (EST) Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au, jbarbee@singular.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Wemm said: > > Yes, something like this will be needed if there is going to be SMP > support, but it's premature until the kernel is up and reasonably stable. > SMP is damn hard enough, let alone with a shakey or unstable foundation. > I am almost going CRAZY trying to do the "right things" for SMP in the VM code :-(. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message