On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:06:59AM -0800, Erik Berls wrote:
> Huh?
> 
> We're talking amd64 here.  What is done in port-i386 or port-x86-64
> isn't a concern of mine.

I'm aware of this.

> 
> X2 and the FX-60 are socket 939 (desktop) CPUs with dual cores.  The
> socket am2 chips FX-62, FX-70, ... are dual core.

And you still can get systems with single-core CPUs: duron, sempron, athlon64, 
pentium4, celeron, core. They're probably still the most sold systems at this
time.

Users would be surprised, at last, it an upgrade installs a SMP kernel
in place of their UP kernel by default.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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