From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 9 13:51:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA22030 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:51:01 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA22022 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:50:59 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA01945; Mon, 9 Oct 1995 13:50:29 -0700 Message-Id: <199510092050.NAA01945@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Charles Kenneth Green - PRC cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiprocessor support In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Oct 1995 15:14:49 EDT." <199510091914.PAA01722@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 13:50:28 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 ;) Anyone interrested in SMP should look at the SMP work Jack Vogel began. I haven't been able to look at it yet, but it should be enough to initialize additional CPUs and run crude processes (enough to see that its doing something) on them. It will probably need a lot of work just to get it to run under current. The archive file is ftp://freefall.FreeBSD.org/pub/smp/SMP.tar.Z Good Luck! >-- >Charles Green UN*X System Administration >22 Powell Ave. Apt. B UN*X Security & >Whitesboro, NY 13492 Programming > (315) 768-9244 -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================