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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2007 12:00:04 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Andrea Milani <andre.mil@tiscali.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: trouble with HT
Message-ID:  <20070404160004.GA59829@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4613848B.5080306@tiscali.it>
References:  <20070403194555.4a9d1f2f.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070404005721.GA19966@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070403212527.b94753ea.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <4613848B.5080306@tiscali.it>

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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

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