Subject: Re: Hyperthreading?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/20/2003 16:36:21
In article <Pine.NEB.4.58.0309200920450.18895@rapture.immanent.net>,
Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Frank van der Linden wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:09:24AM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>> > I have a Compaq W8000, 2.2GHz, which does have an option in the CMOS
>> > utility to enable hyperthreading, but no matter -- NetBSD 1.6ZC as of
>> > yesterday still sees only one processor (feature list shows HTT, BIOS
>> > has been upgraded to the latest, 1.27).
>>
>> Have you tried a kernel with acpi and MPACPI?
>
>Only GENERIC.MP so far. I was going to try that next anyway...
>
>Who hoo! It works:

Of course it does! You *need* ACPI/MPACPI to see the second processor on most
machines.

christos