Re: P4 HT doesn't work
joe, you are right! i was looking to the CPU flags and saw the HT flag, so i
thought this CPU should support that, my mistake. installing debian on
another system with a "real" HT CPU was successful.
eric
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 21:40, Joseph H. Fry wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 22:42 +0200, Debian wrote:
> > I have a P4 1.6 GHz with HT. It is enabled in the Bios and i'm using
>
> the
>
> > linux-image-2.6.12-SMP kernel. wheter x86info not /proc/cpuinfo are
> > knowing something about 2 virtual CPU's.
> > What is going wrong?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't hyperthreading start at 2.8GHz?
> Hell I even have a 2.8 that doesn't have HT... the flag is there in
> cpuinfo, but no second cpu.
>
> I'm betting that's your problem, you believe it when cpuinfo says you
> have HT... I don't think you actually do though. Do a google search for
> "proc/cpuinfo ht flag" and you will find that most (all?) p4's have the
> flag set, but not all support HT.
>
> Joe
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