Subject: Re: SMP support for sparc?
To: Tobias Anderberg <tba@softhome.net>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/08/2002 12:24:35
>So, what's the current state of the smp for sparc? I have an old
>Quad SS20 that I'm thinking of installing NetBSD on.
Depends on your cpus. If you have Ross Hypersparc's as in:
cpu0 at mainbus0: RT620/625 @ 100 MHz, on-chip FPU
then, no it doesn't work. These particular cpu's need some extra
help wrt cache coherency, and I don't know that anyone has the needed
docs to fix it. (I've got four of those cpu's as well ;-)
--sjg