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 > >standard pentium4 line of processors) > >[wikipedia] > >HyperThreading was present in all Northwood CPUs, but was disabled in the > >core in all but the 3.06 GHz model. > >[/wikipedia] > > > > That's not true. I have a 2.6 GHz Northwood, and it supports > HyperThreading (however I'm not running FreeBSD on it, so I can't help > you with SMP). > You can use the Intel Processor Spec Finder > (http://processorfinder.intel.com/) to discover the capabilities of your > CPU, but I think the "HTT" that appears in the dmesg output stands for > Hyper Threading Technology.
The 'HTT' feature bit says the CPU can be queried about whether it supports HTT, not that it supports it. Kris
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