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From: miller@ham... miller@ham...
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 on dual Pentium machine?
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:30:35 BST

"jim mckie" <jmk@pla...> wrote:

>  i've had mp x86's running for a while in full symmetric i/o mode, but
>  i don't really have the time to put the work back into plan9. if you were
>  interested in that i could let you have the brazil code and any help
>  you'd need in order to make it available to the plan9 community.

My x86 multiprocessor adaptation of Plan 9 stopped short of distributed
interrupt handling because it makes the code very much simpler, and I'm not
convinced that it would give much benefit in performance.  But I'll be
happy to adopt the Brazil multiprocessor interrupt code in the interests
of keeping the two systems on a similar evolutionary track.

-- Richard Miller