From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 12 16:51:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07423 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:51:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07414 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06526; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:50:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199808122350.SAA06526@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: solaris is free. In-Reply-To: <19980812194840.M28142@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 12, 98 07:48:40 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:50:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, nick.hibma@jrc.it, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey said: > > Solaris isn't all bad. I'm getting the feeling that threads and MP > support are going to make or break FreeBSD. > I agree. I am working on threads right now (and threads only) for work. It will be targeted to our own NetBSD version, but will be initially developed on FreeBSD. I AM making progress, and will be using some of JB's work. RE: SMP, the code just needs to be fixed in the areas that I suggest, and hold off until a more distributed and SMP based OS will be ready for use :-). If you think that my VM work was radical -- a "true" SMP kernel based upon the FreeBSD code would be very very radical. IMO, SMP requires a rework, and that is what I am doing in my spare time now. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message