Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264502AbUFQLW0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:22:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266452AbUFQLW0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:22:26 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:33153 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264502AbUFQLWY (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:22:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:22:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Mikael Pettersson cc: andre@tomt.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Programtically tell diff between HT and real In-Reply-To: <200406170855.i5H8tk15012560@alkaid.it.uu.se> Message-ID: References: <200406170855.i5H8tk15012560@alkaid.it.uu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1394 Lines: 38 On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:58:26 -0400 (EDT), Richard B. Johnson wrote: > >> > 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. > > Or you forgot to enable ACPI in the kernel. > For some reason, the MP tables aren't capable of > describing HT siblings, so the BIOSen do that > via the ACPI tables instead. > I'll look, thanks. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.26 on an i686 machine (5570.56 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/