[SunRescue] SS5 upgrade

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I don't know anything about great SMP programming, but if I did, I
wouldn't care how old/slow the machine was, since mutex problems exists
reguardless of speed.  In fact, older machines might just be better for
optimization tasks (in the general sense, not the down in assembly nitty
gritty).  I mean, if n^2 for reasonable sizes of n runs fine on your new
box, then why optimize.  But people on slower boxes would probably rather
have that be n or maybe even n^.5 if possible.  Remeber, most of the world
thinks a 486 is a pretty spiffy machine.

But, unfortunatly, I don't know much about optimizing kernels for SMP, so
I can't reasonably offer to help.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Al Potter wrote:

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> jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu said:
> > Perhaps that want us linux lovers should do.  Find a good coder and
> > donate a SS1000 or SS2000 to him (or better yet, her).  Who are the
> > main SMP people?
> 
> For a long time, David Miller (now of RedHat) was the main guy, he is still 
> involved.  I've offered to loan or donate older sparc hardware to facilitate 
> filling gaps in architecture support in the past to no avail....  none of the 
> developers seemed interested in the old stuff....  ultra or better.
> 
> I hope else someone has better luck.
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> AL
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