Re: AW: HT enable on BIOS which doesn't supports it?

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 12:09:55 EST


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On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:56, 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.

All Northwood CPUs have ht, but it's disabled and you cannot use it.
(except you have an "official" HT-CPU 8-) )

mb@lfs:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2240.925
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 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips : 4423.68

> Brad

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Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]
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