On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 01:05:05PM +0800, Dennis Ferguson wrote: > > find hardware which behaves like this to test on). I haven't > heard anything one way or the other concerning support for MP > Alphas, but the implicit message from the current state of > the code is that an MP Alpha isn't a NetBSD target.
We do run on a pretty good variety of multiprocessor Alpha systems. Whether it's worth the effort to ensure we continue to do so... well, it might be worth at least a policy of "do no harm" (in other words, declaring the necessary barrier operation and using it where we notice it is needed). Thor