From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263060AbTKTWxj (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:53:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263088AbTKTWxi (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:53:38 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:53005 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263060AbTKTWxf (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:53:35 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: gatekeeper.tmr.com!davidsen From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: AW: HT enable on BIOS which doesn't supports it? Date: 20 Nov 2003 22:42:45 GMT Organization: TMR Associates, Schenectady NY Message-ID: References: <20031118165605.39280.qmail@web40903.mail.yahoo.com> X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1069368165 11004 192.168.12.62 (20 Nov 2003 22:42:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Originator: davidsen@gatekeeper.tmr.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20031118165605.39280.qmail@web40903.mail.yahoo.com>, Bradley Chapman wrote: | My CPU is like that too: | | processor : 0 | vendor_id : GenuineIntel | cpu family : 15 | model : 2 | model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz | stepping : 7 | cpu MHz : 1994.259 | cache size : 512 KB | fdiv_bug : no | hlt_bug : no | f00f_bug : no | coma_bug : no | fpu : yes | fpu_exception : yes | cpuid level : 2 | wp : yes | flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 | clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid | bogomips : 3932.16 | | I also have an 'ht' flag -- but I've never tried SMP. XP doesn't seem to think HT | is on here either, so I just put it down as an anomaly. You can have the HT feature with only one sibling. The value of this is not obvious, and I have no idea if the 2nd sib is really disabled or if it is missing. You can find good discussion in comp.sys.intel and some of the conspiracy groups, I bet. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.