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From: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>
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Subject: RE: [BUG?] Xeon with HyperThreading and linux-2.4.20-rc2
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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Nakajima, Jun wrote:

> As Hugh pointed out, the MPS table should report the physical processors
> only even if HT is enabled. The major reason is to support legacy OSes that
> don't support HT well. If the BIOS has an option for you to enable/disable
> HT, then please use it. 

But since my BIOS reports 4 CPU's in the MPS table (with HT enabled), I 
guess the BIOS is doing something wrong ? Should I report this to the 
vendor ?

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