Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-11-04 Thread Andi Kleen
> Would it not be as simple as looking at the BIOS provided topology > information? If nr sockets > 4 assume multiple board. There is no reason multiple two socket boards couldn't be connected with HT cables to form a larger system. Then you might end up with a 4 socket system with multiple oscill

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-11-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 19:52 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized > > > > This is probably wrong. The TSC is on the northbridge on Barcelona > > chips, so every core on the die should be in sync. Hypothetically

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-11-04 Thread Andi Kleen
Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized > > This is probably wrong. The TSC is on the northbridge on Barcelona > chips, so every core on the die should be in sync. Hypothetically you > could have different speed northbridges in different sockets

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-11-03 Thread Chris Snook
Zurk Tech wrote: dmesg (new) with disabled GART error reporting if anyone wants to compare to previous dmesg with GART error reporting : A few unrelated observations about Barcelona support... Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized This is probably wrong. The TSC is on the northbr

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-11-02 Thread Zurk Tech
dmesg (new) with disabled GART error reporting if anyone wants to compare to previous dmesg with GART error reporting : dmesg Linux version 2.6.23.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #5 SMP Fri Oct 26 04:07:27 EDT 2007 Command line: root=/dev/md1 ro BIO

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-11-01 Thread Zurk Tech
i have no clue. thats why im not a kernel dev. :) but its fixed now by a simple gart setting to disabled in bios so its ok. mobo is s3992 tyan h2000 and bios is downloadable on tyans website..2.x i think. -Z- On 11/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:50:50 -0400

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:50:50 -0400 "Zurk Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > duh. never mind. i had an attack of the stupids and enabled GART error > reporting in the bios menu when i installed the motherboard. fixed > now. shows all 4 and 8 on the other one. Confused. Why should that cause the k

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-10-25 Thread Zurk Tech
duh. never mind. i had an attack of the stupids and enabled GART error reporting in the bios menu when i installed the motherboard. fixed now. shows all 4 and 8 on the other one. -z- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-10-25 Thread Zurk Tech
sorry forgot putty cuts it off - full log. =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2007.10.25 10:08:10 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= dmesg Linux version 2.6.23.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #3 SMP Fri Oct 26 02:03:04 EDT 2007 Command line: root=/dev/md1 ro

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-10-25 Thread Zurk Tech
PPP BSD Compression module registered CAPI Subsystem Rev 1.1.2.8 capi20: Rev 1.1.2.7: started up with major 68 (middleware+capifs) capidrv: Rev 1.1.2.2: loaded capifs: Rev 1.1.2.3 b1pci: revision 1.1.2.2 b1: revision 1.1.2.2 b1dma: revision 1.1.2.3 b1pci: revision 1.1.2.2 t1pci: revision 1.1.2.2 c4

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Snook
Zurk Tech wrote: Hi guys, I have a tyan s3992 h2000 with single barcelona amd quad core cpu (the other cpu socket is empty). cat /proc/cpuinfo shows amd quad core processor but core : 1ive compiled the kernel from scratch with smp and amd64 + the numa stuff. i also tried debian etchs amd64 sm

Re: Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-10-24 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:02:14 -0400 "Zurk Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > I have a tyan s3992 h2000 with single barcelona amd quad core cpu (the > other cpu socket is empty). cat /proc/cpuinfo shows amd quad core > processor > but core : 1ive compiled the kernel from scratch with

Quad core CPU detected but shows as single core in 2.6.23.1

2007-10-24 Thread Zurk Tech
Hi guys, I have a tyan s3992 h2000 with single barcelona amd quad core cpu (the other cpu socket is empty). cat /proc/cpuinfo shows amd quad core processor but core : 1ive compiled the kernel from scratch with smp and amd64 + the numa stuff. i also tried debian etchs amd64 smp kernel and same r