Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread Bradley Serbu
Peter Karlsson wrote: To enable smt you need to enable smp... Besides, an smp kernel works nicely for an non-smp system as well... What benefits does a kernel configuration like this have? The results in dmesg show Hyperthreading as disabled. - Brad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > I've never heard of them being wrong, as for "guaranteed", not sure I'd > go that far. I don't remember hyperthreading being enabled for pentium 4 mobile chips but I could be wrong. > I'm pretty sure you're going to be enabling hyperthreading (HT), not > S

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread Bradley Serbu
For all that are interested. I went ahead and built my kernel with Symetric Muliprocessing support enabled and didn't have a problem. However I didn't see another CPU show up and the results of dmesg said HyperThreading was disabled. After some further research online with the P4M processor I

Re: [gentoo-user] Are the flags in /proc/cpuinfo accurate?

2005-02-11 Thread fire-eyes
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 05:32 -0500, Bradley Serbu wrote: > My flags tell me that I have a hyperthreading capable processor, which > is new to my knowledge. I am curious if the output is garunteed correct > before I compile the dual-processor options in my kernel. > > I have a Mobile Intel(R) Pen