Subject: Re: some stupid question I had to ask
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Emre <emre@iris.vsrc.uab.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/15/1999 11:21:16
> No. Work is being done *right now* to provide SMP on Alpha and Sparc.
Whoa...that's even better!
If NetBSD would use all processors in my Ultra 60 I would dump buggy
Slowaris for life.
It kinda makes sense though. I don't understand people that use SMP intel
boxes (note that server was not my idea :) anyway.
> There are patches available for i386 that find the second processor, but
> nothing more.
Heh, just curious...what's the purpose of those patches? So are you
saying they will only make the other processor show up on dmesg and that's
it?
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Emre Yildirim
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