NetBSD/Alpha goes multiprocessor

chaoskitty writes "Jason Thorpe has gotten multiprocessor NetBSD/Alpha to go multiuser! He has already done a kernel build and full userland build with the multiprocessor kernel. More details are in Jason's message to the NetBSD tech-smp list.

Comments

Re:I really don't think you meant multiuser

[FreeMath]

No, the news is that the multiprocessor is now multiuser.

To quote: "I got multiprocessor Alpha kernels to go multi-user, running both user and kernel code on multiple processors".

Re:I really don't think you meant multiuser

[bartyboy]

If anything's an indicator that BSD isn't dying, check the number of BSD articles posted today on /.

Then again, they could be hitting a niche market.

(awaiting troll moderation)

Living in a Glass House

[Alien54]

Okay, it's late, I'm bored. so here we go. As you said:

My Reply
It's about time someone posted a pro-MS article on this site - the only thing I'm dissapointed with is the number of troll statements posted in the comments.

And then yo did an extensve analysis of the article.

The problem is that the start of your comments were *cut off* well before the start of your commetary by the infamous line "Read the rest of this comment... ". In other words, what was visible was the most troll intensive portion of your article. This was very bad positioning for your comments, since some of them were mildly interesting. Probably such a post should be reorganized, and should have been saved for posting in reply to an appropriate article. Here it is best seen as a troll.

Now there is the matter of this bit:

Why would individuals encrypt their emails and other correspondence to each other? What is the rational explanation? The only reason I can see for day-to-day use of encryption is personal emails is that you have something to hide or you have a bad case of paranoia. No offence people - but what makes what you say so interesting that you are so concerned about other people reading it? If you are doing something illegal, or you are concerned about maintaining secrecy because other people may steal your original (and so far unpatented) ideas then maybe there is a point - but I have met some people who refuse to exchange email unless it is PGP encrypted - what's up with that?

Simply, PGP offers a way to ensure that the person sending you the email is the person they say they are. Not some one faking it.

The other issue is one of Privacy.

If you do not belive in privacy, then I can recommned a glass house for you.

After all, you are not doing anything illegal? And if all houses were made of glass we would be able to catch criminals alot easier. We could just watch them all of the time with TV cameras.

What are you doing that is so important that it would require secrecy and privacy 24 hours a day? You must have a criminal frame of mind, not wanting to live in a glass house.

This obsession with privacy is merely paranoia, y'know, and is easily fixed with one of several medications. Let us recommend a nice doctor who would be very willing to help you with medications.

Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip

Re:I really don't think you meant multiuser

[thorpej]

Actually, it is just what I meant. While uniprocessor kernels for NetBSD/alpha have run well for a number of years, I had only been able to get multiprocessor kernels into single-user mode previously. If you have never done low-level debugging of a multiprocessor capable kernel, then you probably don't know just how big of a milestone this is.