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FreeBSD s/390 Port in the works

Posted by timothy on from the very-beginnings dept.

brad-x writes: "It appears that an enterprising gentleman has taken the time to port FreeBSD to the s/390. It needs some work yet, as his project page suggests, but if he makes it happen it will definitely be very cool. Check it out!"

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  1. Re:Does this mean that... by questionlp · · Score: 4, Informative

    5.0-CURRENT includes SMPng which is supposed to improve MP performance dramatically by knocking away that single giant lock. I have heard people running FreeBSD on a quad Intel processor setup a while ago on freebsd-questions... though I'm not sure how well performance would scale compared to a dual processor setup of the same processor speed.

    I haven't been able to fully parse the boot log, so I'm not sure if it is utilizing more than one processor or not, but the thing that the write-up forgot to mention was that it was tested under the S/390 emulator (aka Hercules). I'm not sure what Hercules is and how it work per se... but it's still a huge jump forward for FreeBSD.

  2. Re:More the merrier by glitchvern · · Score: 4, Informative

    Intrestingly enough NetBSD does not run on the 390.