cvs commit: www/en/releases/6.1R todo.sgml

[Tom Rhodes]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:17:06 +0000
Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:57:12AM +0000, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > murray      2006-01-26 09:57:12 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en/releases/6.1R     todo.sgml 
> >   Log:
> >   Add kbdmux and sysinstall smp kernel install items from the ideas page
> >   to the 6.1 Desired Features list.
> 
> I think it's a little late to mess with sysinstall to that extent
> for 6.1.  Sounds like the kind of thing that could sit in -CURRENT for
> months, but hardly anyone would actually be using it.  It seems that the
> main problem with sysinstall is that hardly any of our developers use
> it.
> 
> On to the question: how often does an SMP kernel fail to boot where a
> UP one might work?  I remember that this used to be a problem, but if
> it's still "too often", can we have just the bits that probe for an
> mptable (or however we determine that there is more that one processor)
> in the UP kernel without suffering that instability?
> 
> What I'm basically asking is how much of the SMP code is really required
> just to detect MP hardware?

*I* have not had many problems.  Ok, I've had none.

-- 
Tom Rhodes