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Date:      Tue, 01 May 2001 07:51:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010501075103.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010501122352.A39507@freebie.demon.nl>

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On 01-May-01 Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:47:17AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> On 29-Apr-01 Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> > If memory serves me right, John Baldwin wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> On 27-Apr-01 Bruce A. Mah wrote:
>> >> > bmah        2001/04/27 15:25:16 PDT
>> >> > 
>> >> >   Modified files:
>> >> >     release/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml 
>> >> >     release/texts/alpha  RELNOTES.TXT 
>> >> >     release/texts/i386   RELNOTES.TXT 
>> >> >   Log:
>> >> >   New release note:  SMPng on alpha.
>> >> 
>> >> Err, not SMPng per se (SMPng really means multithreading hte kernel,
>> >> which
>> >> is
>> >>  a
>> >> kernel arch change and is not specific to SMP machines or to any
>> >> architecture
>> >> ,
>> >> it changes UP kernels too, which seems to be something many people are
>> >> misunderstanding) it's more that we support SMP hardware on the alpha
>> >> arch
>> >> no
>> >> w.
>> > 
>> > Err.  Here's the text I actually committed:
>> > 
>> >       SMP support for the Alpha is now operational.
>> > 
>> > Did I write a bad commit message or did I write a bad commit message 
>> > and a bad release note item?  :-)
>> 
>> Just a bad commit message I guess. :)  SMPng has been working on alpha for
>> many
>> months now, so it was misleading.  The release note is quite fine.
> 
> But it was only working with seperate patchkits right? So not in the CVS
> repo.

No.  Reread my mail.  SMPng != SMP.  SMPng is multithreading the kernel and
consists of things like ithreads, mutexes, etc.  SMP is actual hardware support
for multiple processors.  SMPng affects UP kernels as well as SMP kernels.

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