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1.10 jufi 17: <h2><font color="#e00000">SMP</font></h2>
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20: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.13 nick 22: The project to add SMP support to OpenBSD was started in
23: February, 2000.
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1.1 niklas 25: <p>
1.13 nick 26: As of June, 2004, SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessor) support has been
27: merged into the main OpenBSD development branch.
1.15 jasper 28: At this time, the <a href="i386.html">i386</a>,
29: <a href="amd64.html">amd64</a>, <a href="mvme88k.html">mvme88k</a>,
30: <a href="sparc64.html">sparc64</a> and
31: <a href="macppc.html">macppc</a>
1.16 jasper 32: platforms supports SMP.
33: The <a href="sgi.html">sgi</a> port supports SMP on the multiprocessor
34: Octane models, other machines aren't support (yet).
1.18 ! jasper 35: SMP support for the <a href="hppa.html">hppa</a> port is nearing
! 36: completion, however several bugs still exist which prevent it from
! 37: running stably.
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! 39: Hopefully other platforms, including, <a href="sparc.html">sparc</a>
! 40: and <a href="alpha.html">alpha</a> will ultimately support SMP.
1.1 niklas 41:
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1.13 nick 43: Please see the appropriate <a href="plat.html">platform</a> page for
44: SMP status for your system.
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1.4 niklas 47: We plan to put up links to good documents here whenever we find them:
1.7 rohee 48:
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1.10 jufi 50: <li><a href="http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium/datashts/24201606.pdf">
1.1 niklas 51: MultiProcessor Specification</a> by Intel.
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