Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:06:54 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: yves@CC.McGill.CA, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MP? Message-ID: <199603290406.VAA04536@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960328180542.250e-100000@ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Mar 28, 96 06:09:40 pm
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> > Hi all, > > > > Does FreeBSD support multiple CPU's yet? Any plans? Foreseable future? > > > > (talk about quick questions ;-)) > > > > Hey Terry...you should do a weekly cron message out to -questions > for this *grin* > > Yves...Terry Lampert has been working on MP support, but it is > not inherent in the standard kernel, you have to get various patches for > it to work. I'm not sure how far along it is (ie. I know Terry had it > up on 2 CPUs...not sure about more then that). > > I've also heard that someone at Intel is working with Terry on > this...but that is unsubstiated, in that I believe Terry mentioned it > once, but I could be misquoting. I owe him some code for a week now. I have been dead at work, and haven't had much to play with the SMP code lately. I promise I will send it out Saturday, latest. 8-(. > Also, I *believe* you have to be running one of the older -current > kernels for the patches to work. 28 Oct 1994. 8-(. Unless you want to fix locore.s. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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