From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 9 12:14:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA19279 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 12:14:57 -0700 Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA19272 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 12:14:52 -0700 Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA01722 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:14:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:14:49 -0400 From: Charles Kenneth Green - PRC Message-Id: <199510091914.PAA01722@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Multiprocessor support Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I'm currently discussing with a professor at one of the local collages the idea of getting together a graduate team to work on implementing multiprocessor support in freeBSD. The professor is very excited about this prospect but he is not sure if he'll be able to convince the C.S. department to "enhance" the rules so that this might be done. I don't want to know too much about the politics involved but what little I do know tells me this could be an uphill battle. So, needless to say this project may never get any farther than the planning stage :( Anyhow, I was hoping that perhaps I could pick your brains for a little advice. I already own a number of O.S. design books and I found a book in one of the local bookstores with example code for multiprocessors but you can never have enough reference material :) I'd be very interested in any (no matter how small) advise anyone has to offer. Perhaps if I walk into the next meeting with a stack of reference material they might be wow'd into thinking "We have to do this!!" (But I think that'd be too simple ;) -- Charles Green UN*X System Administration 22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming (315) 768-9244