From 1df90e0c66dfb001309c20e63300fe07358ef2bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Babenhauserheide Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:15:02 +0200 Subject: SMP clearer --- news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn b/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn index fc203bd5..66176916 100644 --- a/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn +++ b/news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ After [[our latest Quarter of the Hurd|news/2011-q2]] has been picked up by slas * *Hurd only supports legacy devices:* ½ Partly True: Currently most drivers are from Linux 2.0. For network cards, Linux 2.6+ drivers are available through DDE, though (needs manual setup for now). With a good amount of work, DDE also allows porting other classes of drivers to allow using the drivers from recent Linux releases — and push them into userspace. -* *The Hurd has no SMP:* ✔ True: Even though the Hurd servers support SMP and GNU Mach has SMP support. But the latter [[does_not_yet_have_drivers_for_nowadays_chipsets|faq/smp]], so the Hurd currently can’t take advantage of multiple cores. +* *The Hurd has no SMP:* ✔ True: Even though the **Hurd servers support SMP** and **GNU Mach has SMP support**. But the latter [[does_not_yet_have_drivers_for_nowadays_chipsets|faq/smp]], so the Hurd currently can’t take advantage of multiple cores. * *Developing a microkernel must be harder than developing a monolithic kernel, because the Hurd took so long:* ✘ Wrong: For the last decade, the Hurd had on average 5 hobby developers. That these developers managed to get the Hurd into a state where it actually gets not too far from the Linux kernel in performance — which has about 1000 developers, many of them full time — shows the efficiency of the Hurd’s design. -- cgit v1.2.3