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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2011-07-19 23:15:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> | 2011-07-19 23:15:02 +0200 |
| commit | 1df90e0c66dfb001309c20e63300fe07358ef2bb (patch) | |
| tree | 037d8172ddb04413aadf744d36110a137fd0eddc | |
| parent | bb52651ecb13f62f6126927e9500e1d0befe88bf (diff) | |
SMP clearer
| -rw-r--r-- | news/2011-q2-ps.mdwn | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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:* <u>✔ True</u>: 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:* <u>✔ True</u>: 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. |