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NetBSD/sparc Now With SMP

Posted by timothy on from the soon-you'll-have-a-fire dept.

jschauma writes "Largely due to the efforts of Paul Kranenburg, NetBSD -current now supports SMP on sparc. It has been tested on a SPARCstation 20/712, sun4/690 and other systems. See Matthew Green's message to the port-sparc mailing list." (i386 got this back in October.)

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  1. Re:Curious about SPARC... by mcgroarty · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Okay, register windows are interesting. That means very fast context switching. So between that, Sun's use of SPARCs and the running profile of most Java apps I've seen, I'm guessing that SPARCs are geared toward software with nasty-obscene thread counts. :)

    I could see why SMP would be a priority.