This should be easy :-) Well, I have been surfing for details and reading old messages on this list. It seems that once upon a time, SMP was almost fixed for x86, but then the project was abandoned. Enter into the mixture this OSkit-mach, and I'm not sure where to get started. That is, is there a general preference on which mach is preferred? The stuff I have read seems pretty out-of-date. To that extent I have a few questions: 1. Can gnumach and OSkit-mach coexist in the Hurd partition? 2. OSkit-mach gets ripped on for being slow, but at the same time then the microkernel can be smaller. Would SMP gains outweigh the performance hit? 3. Any suggestions or comments? I have finally completed my SMP box, it has a Tyan Thunder 100 Pro with 440GX chipset, 192 Mb RAM, Dual PII-450's, and a GeForce2 MX. I'm running a SMP Kernel 2.4.2 with Debian 2.2 and XFree 4.0.2. My Hurd cross-compiler finally works and I built my own gnumach ukernel and can boot to Hurd, so I have a good SMP test platform. All-rightey then... now where did I put my assembly programming hat... Thanks for any help in this matter, - Doug
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