Subject: Re: Re: SMP on SPARC64
To: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
From: None <ogdenk@vacoxmail.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/03/2003 18:21:37
I don't think FreeBSD supports the SCSI controller on the Ultra 2 though or have they just not updated their pages in a while?

--Kevin
> 
> From: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
> Date: 2003/04/03 Thu PM 06:13:00 EST
> To: ogdenk@vacoxmail.com
> CC: port-sparc64@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: SMP on SPARC64
> 
> * On 2003-04-04 at 00:07 BST, ogdenk@vacoxmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I've got a Sun Ultra 2 dual CPU machine here at work.  Is SMP
> > supported yet under NetBSD/sparc64 or will I have to run Solaris for a
> > while?
> 
> You can still run NetBSD/sparc64 fine, as I do on the Ultra2 under my
> desk at work, however it won't utilise the 2nd CPU.  There is no clear
> project for doing this work, but there are people looking at it.
> 
> > I'd much rather run NetBSD though, Slowlaris is a pig.
> 
> FreeBSD 5.0 can do SMP on sparc64, fwiw.
> 
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