In article <pine.neb.4.64.1411201612180.5...@mail.netbsd.org>, Eduardo Horvath <e...@netbsd.org> wrote: >On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > >> 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). > >Or you could try to get the kernel to run on a SPARC V9 machine running >with RMO memory ordering. There's a lot more of those around. I'm not
Isn't "RMO Memory Ordering" like "Windows/NT New Technology" or "Colgate/FP with Fluoride Protection"? :-) christos
