On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 07:02:27PM +0100, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, > > today I booted Knoppix LiveCD 4.0 (based on Debian, with kernel 2.6.11) on > an Sony PC with an ATI grachics chip to see how the X-server identified and > configured itself for the ATI (with no really clear answer, but it did not > seem to use an "ati" driver), but then I thought I would check if the kernel > was loaded with SMP since the CPU was a Pentium D 820. KDE's Kinfo clearly > showed there being 2 CPUs - CPU 0 and CPU 1, but there was nothing actually > showing a kernel with SMP support was running. > > What I'm wondering is: > > 1) Are the new (dual core) Pentium D and AMD x2 CPUs handled differently in > terms of SMP than the tranditional 2 CPU (SMP) setups we've had upto now? > No. > 2) I know the kernels anyway need to be compiled with SMP support, so maybe > the Knoppix LiveCD is (does anybody know for sure?), but I know that my 2 > CPU (Pentium 3) system with Debian 3.1 shows that it is a kernel with SMP > support and also needs an IRQ balancer for example, which I did not see on > this Pentium D system. > The Knoppix CD does not have an SMP kernel. > 3) Is it that the new dual core CPUs being on one chip/socket are handled > different and do not need an IRQ balancer? > No. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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