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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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