Re: Status

I got this question private:

> Call me uneducated,  but why can't for SMP support from Free be cloned?

In order to save on my time, I'll reply here:

Because SMP support radically changes the system and is not a
localized subsystem.  SMP support from NetBSD is possible to use,
because we are more similar to them, but finding all the thousands of
changes spread out all over the kernel source tree is tedious at best,
and you still need to think things through and understand them,
because details are different in the two systems.  SMP from FreeBSD is
not an easy fit into our kernel.  However, they have quite some good
code to be inspired by.

Part of the thing about us developers not posting here is that we
always get lots of followups to deal with, and we can't, sad to say.
Please respect our wish to not want to answer questions about things
like this.  Of course these question have a right to be posed, but not
here.  These questions are better done in misc@, I think. 
I do not at all want to be elitistic or condoning, but
believe me, it stresses me, just like Toby explained, when I almost
cannot manage life without OpenBSD.  I am deeply disturbed that I have
made next to no contributions at all the last year due to real-life
issues.  When I finally get to see the light in the tunnel, I want to
get down to coding business, not do meta-things like talk on
mailinglists, that just takes away coding time for me.

This mailing list was meant as a low volume list, for announcements or
tech. discussions, not a FAQ forum, and believe me, when we have
something to say, we'll say it.

Niklas