Re: Use SMP on i386

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Dries Schellekens wrote:

> 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).

This is actually documented at http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html

"We have created a src/sys branch in CVS, called SMP where the development
is happening. In order to check it out, do:

$ cvs checkout -rSMP src/sys"


Cheers,

Dries
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