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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 21:58:56 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@redirect.to>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@redirect.to>
Cc:        Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/VAX anyone interested?
Message-ID:  <200105311958.f4VJww035078@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <hey6xftc.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>

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> Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org> writes:
> 
> > I got some VAXen 6420, big machines. Mine has 6 CPUs. I was planning
> > to boot myself with Ultrix, and then go on with NetBSD. Even 
> > NetBSD's port-vax needs some tweaking for my hardware, XMI and 
> > BI bus support is blank. I am with FreeBSD forever and FreeBSD
> > has SMP which NetBSD has not. I want to run all of my 6 CPUs
> > not just one. So, I am thinking about taking the Alpha port and
> > reverse hacking it into a VAX port with lots of cheating with
> > the NetBSD code. 

FYI, a message titled "NetBSD/vax now runs multicpu" has just been
posted today in announce@netbsd.org :

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2001/05/31/0000.html

hope this help.

Cyrille.
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