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<h2><font color="#e00000">SMP</font></h2>

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<h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>

The project to add SMP support to OpenBSD was started in 
February, 2000.

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As of June, 2004, SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessor) support has been 
merged into the main OpenBSD development branch.
At this time, the <a href="i386.html">i386</a>,
<a href="amd64.html">amd64</a>, <a href="mvme88k.html">mvme88k</a>,
<a href="sparc64.html">sparc64</a> and
<a href="macppc.html">macppc</a>
platforms supports SMP.
The <a href="sgi.html">sgi</a> port supports SMP on the multiprocessor
Octane models, other machines aren't support (yet).
SMP support for the <a href="hppa.html">hppa</a> port is nearing
completion, however several bugs still exist which prevent it from
running stably.

Hopefully other platforms, including, <a href="sparc.html">sparc</a>
and <a href="alpha.html">alpha</a> will ultimately support SMP.

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Please see the appropriate <a href="plat.html">platform</a> page for
SMP status for your system.

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We plan to put up links to good documents here whenever we find them:

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<li><a href="http://developer.intel.com/design/pentium/datashts/24201606.pdf">
MultiProcessor Specification</a> by Intel.
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