On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote:

> >> AT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,<b28>,ACC>
> >> 
> >>     It has HTT set but it's only a 1.2GHz box and I heard somewhere that only
> >>     2+ GHz P4's had hyperthreading.  I noticed some MFCs to stable that 
> >>     suggested hyperthreading support but I do not know if full hyperthreading
> >>     support has been MFCd yet or is intended to be MFCd to -stable.
> > 
> > AFAIK, full hyperthreading support, as it is, has been merged to 
> > -stable. It consists of a patch to recognize the virtual CPUs, so they 
> > will be dealt with like any SMP system, as long as HTT is enabled on the 
> > BIOS.
> 
> Well, sort of.  We have no way of knowing if it is off in the BIOS unless
> we use the ACPI tables to enumerate CPU's (which we don't), so turning it
> off in the BIOS won't turn it off in FreeBSD for the time being. :)
> 
I have a 2,8GHz p4 here which has HTT and has a bios option for 

Interrupt mode: [APIC/PIC]

I'm using APIC mode but an SMP (today's 4.x) kernel
panics imediatly saying it can;t find an APIC.






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