From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 16:00:06 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F70716A401 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:00:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D1813C455 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:00:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8CC1A4D8D; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E453F51588; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:00:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:00:04 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andrea Milani Message-ID: <20070404160004.GA59829@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070403194555.4a9d1f2f.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070404005721.GA19966@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070403212527.b94753ea.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <4613848B.5080306@tiscali.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4613848B.5080306@tiscali.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble with HT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:00:06 -0000 --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 12:57:15PM +0200, Andrea Milani wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > >well, wikipedia says this (something that i just now learned about=20 > >standard pentium4 line of processors) > >[wikipedia] > >HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in th= e=20 > >core in all but the 3.06 GHz model. > >[/wikipedia] > > =20 >=20 > That's not true. I have a 2.6 GHz Northwood, and it supports=20 > HyperThreading (however I'm not running FreeBSD on it, so I can't help=20 > you with SMP). > You can use the Intel Processor Spec Finder=20 > (http://processorfinder.intel.com/) to discover the capabilities of your= =20 > CPU, but I think the "HTT" that appears in the dmesg output stands for=20 > Hyper Threading Technology. The 'HTT' feature bit says the CPU can be queried about whether it supports HTT, not that it supports it. Kris --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGE8uEWry0BWjoQKURArfIAJ4nE38b05H9kLcEpJfEdlKa1po1JQCfdJ0N L57CqJdL9pFvySM7nbOjRb8= =KDpK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG--