From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 28 12:29:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A3A15175 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:29:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA16677; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:26:56 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199906281926.VAA16677@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: high-efficiency SMP locks - submission for review In-Reply-To: <19990628171823.3445882@overcee.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Jun 29, 1999 01:18:23 am" To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:26:55 +0200 (SAT) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), alc@cs.rice.edu (Alan Cox), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), bakul@torrentnet.com (Bakul Shah), julian@whistle.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > The 386, I doubt has it. There have been a couple of suggestions for ending > the support for the 386 as it will simplify some ugly code for emulating > kernel-mode write faults etc, but it's never happened. Apparently the > 386 is common in some areas still. The 386 is still used a lot in embeded systems. (With FreeBSD running on some of them. :-) John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message