Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > Tom Riddle <tom.riddle at sun.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > * No MP support
> > > The late availability of multiprocessor hardware relative to
> > > the Solaris 2.5 PowerPC schedule makes it unfeasible to
> > > provide MP support in the first release.
> >
> > We currently only have one CPU on the Pegasus so we cannot implement MP on
> > the
> > first run.
>
> That is true for Pegasos, but HDB announced recently by Genesi is SMP machine.
> We'd better take that into account. The hardware isn't the same, so some
> porting
> will be needed anyway, but I wouldn't make any assumptions based on one CPU
> model.
I would propose to first make OpenSolaris run on the pegasus and later
implement more. This helps to be able to show results to the rest of the world
fast.
J?rg
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