On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:42:49AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: > Arthur Hartwig schrieb: > > >I have a Gigabyte 8I945P-G motherboard with a Pentium D 820 CPU. > >Hyperthreading needs to be enabled in the BIOS for FreeBSD to see the > >second CPU. It appears the CPU presents itself as a hyperthreaded CPU > >with two "logical" CPUs - each "logical" CPU actually corresponding to > >a CPU core. > > > I think this is done due to licencing restrictions of several operating > systems (which have CPU-bound licencing models). Showing a second CPU on > a dual-core die as a hyper-threaded seems to avoid this problem. The > question is now: AMD does not have HT, do they also show the second CPU > as a logical one (from the point of view of the BIOS)?
Yes, but with a second flag that says it's a full core. I presume intel did something similar. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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