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.

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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.