From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 7 18:41:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA13922 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA13915 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA00560; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:31:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Thomas D. Dean" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UPgrade 2.2.2 to 3.0 In-Reply-To: <33E7C356.2781E494@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I want to start using SMP. > > I remember reading a discussion of branches, but, did not > save it and cannot find it on the site. It is there, I just > cannot find it. > > Looking at the FAQ and searching the site left me confused. > One page seems to indicate that -current is actually 3.0. > Another page leaves me with the impression that -current is > actually a continuation of 2.2.2(??). The another page is old; 3.0 is -CURRENT. > I looked at http://www.freebsd.org/index-site.html. This refers > to a 3.0-current branch. Is this what I get with cvsup, 'tag=.'? > > So, given all this, what is: > (1) FreeBSD-current, as relates to SMP? Where you want to be. > (2) FreeBSD-stable, as relates to SMP? > (3) 3.0-970618-SNAP, assuming this is not a continuation of -stable. Not supported. > I am running 2.2.2. I have not used cvsup before, so, I need the > tree. Should I use tag=. to get the tree? Will I get SMP > support with this version? Upgrade to -CURRENT, see http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP and the freebsd-smp mailing list. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo