Subject: Re: NetBSD Sparc64 SMP
To: NetBSD Port Sparc64 <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/23/2005 00:38:18
On Feb 23, 2005, at 12:36 AM, Rick Kelly wrote:
>> Earlier someone stated that the main kernel people have all the SMP
>> hardware they need to continue development...So I have to ask, what
>> can
>> the user community do to move SMP development forward? There is
>> clearly a great deal of desire, and the hardware is there. The
>> biggest
>> problem from what I've seen over the years is lack of time. So what
>> would motivate the Powers That Be to take some time away from other
>> projects, sleep, etc., to hack on this?
>
> One problem may well be a lack of technical documentation. Sun gave a
> lot of
> stuff to Linux system developers.
Didn't they also give a ton of stuff to the FreeBSD crowd? I wonder
what their terms were.
-Dave
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