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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does NetBSD support for multi-CPU (Sparc ) ?
Date: 19 May 1995 13:51:27 +0100
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In article <3parjn$gtd@crl.crl.com>, Gary E. Grant <ggrant@crl.com> wrote:
>In article <3p9j29$23v@netnews.ntu.edu.tw>,
>[Q <song@solar.csie.ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>>
>>Does NetBSD support for multi-CPU ? especially Sparc CPU. 
>>Thanks.
>>
>>							Kun-song Chen
>
>NO.. What you need first is a thread-safe CLIB, then you need to 
>threadsafe the kernel...  Then you need to multithread the kernel, then 
>multithread the drivers, revamp the scheduler ... etc
>
So what are you waiting for :-)

I'd love a SPARC su4m port of NetBSD :-)

Regards,
Neil