Subject: Re: What's up with sparc SMP?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/21/2003 15:20:20
Berd Sieker wrote:
> On 21.03.03, 16:03:26, Bill Meahan wrote:
>
> Btw, -current runs fine with SMP on my SS20 (dual SuperSPARC-II, 75MHz).
>
>> Whazzup?
>
> Easy enough. 2.0 will be the first release to include SMP on any
> architecture.
>
> Such major features are never introduced in minor releases, i. e.
> between 1.6 and 1.6.1. Those are only patch releases, that contain
> mostly bugfixes and occasionally some new, well-tested drivers.
<raises eyebrows>
This is a change.
Back on January 6th, Hauke Fath said 1.7 would be a stable release
with SMP support. And later on, Matthew Green confirmed it.
Has 1.7 been abandoned and become 2.0? Inquiring minds ...
- Greg