Re: SMP

[Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au>]

Andrew Falanga said:
> I was looking on the web site for information as to the current status
> of the efforts to make OpenBSD SMP compatible.  I didn't find much.  All
> I found was an smp mailing list (which the only reason I didn't post
> this message here was that given the deffinition of the group, it
> sounded like this type of question would be unwelcome) that must be
> relatively new as I tried to go searching through archives for that list
> but there was none.

I don't know how OpenBSD's SMP project is going - apart from the fact
that it does exist - but given the distance yet to cover for NetBSD to
behave properly on multi-processor systems, I would assume that a fair
amount of work is required to do the same for OpenBSD.  SMP doesn't seem
to be an important goal at the moment either, though I'm sure any donation
of multiprocessor systems wouldn't be turned down.

If you look on bsdtoday.com there is an 'article' about SMP on NetBSD
(which is really just a link to their mailing list archive).  See
"http://bsdtoday.com/2000/August/News266.html" for more info.

Andrew.

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