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SubjectRe: Programtically tell diff between HT and real
If that 2.8 GHz CPU is not 800 MHz FSB, then it's not HT-capable regardless
of what the feature flags say (as far as I know, most P4 CPUs show HT
support in the feature flags even if it doesn't really support it).


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel
To: "Andre Tomt" <andre@tomt.net>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Programtically tell diff between HT and real


> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Andre Tomt wrote:
>
> > Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> > > mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe
cid
> > > ^_______
> > > bogomips : 5570.56
> > >
> > > I would love to know how you turn in on! This is one of those
> > > "latest-and-greatest" Intel D865PERL mother-boards and I've
> > > even flashed the BIOS with the "latest-and-greatest".
> >
> > The usual way is to enable HT in BIOS, and use a SMP enabled kernel.
> >
>
> It's a SMP kernel. There is no 'HT enable' in the BIOS setup.
> In fact, there is very little that can be set and, it's even
> very hard to convince it that I want to boot from a SCSI and
> not from the first disk it finds. One has to remove the battery
> to discharge the CMOS so it won't ignore the 'Del' key
> on startup. It's a very bad BIOS or a very bad board, I
> don't know which.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
> Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips).
> Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
>
>
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