Re: Status

I got this question private:

> Call me uneducated, but why can't for SMP support from Free be cloned?

In order to save on my time, I'll reply here:

Because SMP support radically changes the system and is not a localized subsystem. SMP support from NetBSD is possible to use, because we are more similar to them, but finding all the thousands of changes spread out all over the kernel source tree is tedious at best, and you still need to think things through and understand them, because details are different in the two systems. SMP from FreeBSD is not an easy fit into our kernel. However, they have quite some good code to be inspired by.

Part of the thing about us developers not posting here is that we always get lots of followups to deal with, and we can't, sad to say. Please respect our wish to not want to answer questions about things like this. Of course these question have a right to be posed, but not here. These questions are better done in misc@, I think. I do not at all want to be elitistic or condoning, but believe me, it stresses me, just like Toby explained, when I almost cannot manage life without OpenBSD. I am deeply disturbed that I have made next to no contributions at all the last year due to real-life issues. When I finally get to see the light in the tunnel, I want to get down to coding business, not do meta-things like talk on mailinglists, that just takes away coding time for me.

This mailing list was meant as a low volume list, for announcements or tech. discussions, not a FAQ forum, and believe me, when we have something to say, we'll say it.

Niklas Received on Fri Mar 21 10:05:22 2003