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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:47:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Slawek Zak <zaks@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
Subject:   RE: HyperThreading not working?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030227134706.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030226174154.G830-100000@femme>

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On 26-Feb-2003 Trish Lynch wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 26-Feb-2003 Slawek Zak wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm in the process of installing 5.0-RELEASE-p3 on a Dell PowerEdge
>> > 2600 server. It has two HyperThreading Xeon 2.4Ghz processors, but
>> > HyperThreading is not working in FreeBSD. I guess that four
>> > processors should be visible in the system after boot. Yes - I've
>> > enabled `Logical Processors' in BIOS. BIOS revision is the latest
>> > available.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts? I attach full dmesg and mptable output. Kernel
>> > config too.
>>
>> 5.0 doesn't support HyperThreading.  The upcoming 5.1 and 4.8 releases
>> will support it.
>>
> 
> it doesn't? I have a 5.0-R box that surely does support HTT.

Your motherboard has an extra special BIOS.  Most BIOS do not enumerate
logical CPU's in the mptable and require the extra patches to work.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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