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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:24:22 +1100
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hyperthreading in 4.8RC 
Message-ID:  <200303190124.MAA15190@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:14:10 -0800.

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> That CPU doesn't really support hyperthreading except in the vacuous
> sense.  It's got enough support that you can boot an SMP kernel, but
> plain P4's below 3.06GHz don't actually have additional logical CPUs
> available.

Thanks, that sort-of makes sense.  What buzz-words do I need to look for when
shopping for CPU and/or MB?  If I get the appropriately fast CPU, will any ol'
S478 MB do or does there need to be special support there too?

Greg.




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