Re: Use SMP on i386

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, James Larkby-Lahet wrote:

> Whenever this pops up, no one ever mentions what actually exists, and
> who to talk to to get a copy to work on.  There doesn't appear to be
> any sys/smp or equivalent in the source tree. Is there
> architecture-dependent code for any platforms?  While the kernel has a
> # of CPU's variable, is there a scheduler that actually cares?  Or, has
> no development (or none worth sharing) occured, and an interested party
> should start from scratch?

All SMP code is in the SMP CVS branch; maybe some developers (ho@ or
niklas@) have some private code (stuff ported from NetBSD).


Cheers,

Dries
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