Re: Hyperthreading

James Bourne (jbourne@mtroyal.ab.ca)
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:34:53 -0600 (MDT)


On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> You do need CONFIG_SMP and a processor capable of HyperThreading,
> i.e. Pentium 4 XEON; but CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not necessary for HT,
> just appropriate to that processor in other ways.

I was under the impression that the only CPU capable of hyperthreading was
the P4 Xeon. Is this not correct? I don't know of any other CPUs that
have the ht feature.

Also, looking at setup.c it's hard to determine if CONFIG_SMP is
actually required, but it doesn't look like it...

Regards
James Bourne

>
> Hugh
>

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