From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 22:00:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A8316A41A for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:00:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550FB43D45 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:00:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3674C1A4DAA; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F53F51AA9; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:00:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:00:05 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Chris H." Message-ID: <20060612220005.GA74601@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060606195938.GA6581@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060612141235.3f7woozpc4888ksc@webmail.1command.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060612141235.3f7woozpc4888ksc@webmail.1command.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Concluding the SMPng project X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:00:06 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Chris H. wrote: > >* For example, a number of us are looking very closely at the nascent > >FreeBSD port to the Sun Ultrasparc T1, which provides 32 virtual CPUs > >(4 threads on 8 CPU cores) on a single chip. Optimizing for the new > >generation of SMP hardware is going to be a major effort over the > >coming year. >=20 > Ahh, so the contributions made by the PIII & PIV CPU's were merely to > obtain access to the Sparc systems, and the PIII & PIV will be relegated > to the ubiquitous I386 scrap heap, as the future and ultimate goal of > FreeBSD is to be Sun Microsystems. Pitty, FreeBSD has always provided > such wide scalability. So easy to implement on so many architectures. > I wish I had known it's agenda years ago. As I would not have spent > so many years and so many dollars building *BSD based infrastructures. > Perhaps I've misunderstood this announcement. But if not; > good riddance. LOL, you've managed to completely misconstrue my email. Well done! Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEjePkWry0BWjoQKURAjiYAJ94vCKYu36+LvyVZrUzSZU9GPAouACg8/cJ biUXNWRAZgDCS2QE7taI+Pg= =yL9g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--