<OT> I love my wife...

[Jerry McBride]

On Friday 30 December 2005 13:17, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:08, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > HT is an odd beast. Running top, it shows two cpus, total bogomips is
> > like 11000, but hardly a speedboat by anymeans. Running 2.6.14.x kernel
> > with smp and ht turned on and well... not real impressive. For the mix of
> > apps I run, it's far smoother when running smp turned off.
> >
> > Another side note, I've been all over the net, looking for smp aware
> > audio drivers for atiix and there are none. So, no audio when tinkeering
> > with smp...
> >
> > That aside, I'm taking the pickup down to the local liquor store...
> > anybody need anything? :')
>
> POI,
>
> I'm not running HT (and not sure if I've got something even capable at the
> moment), but how do you enable it in Linux?  Just booting with SMP kernel?
> Is it a sysctl/proc setting?
>

Running the 2.6.14.2 kernel and a HT aware P4 here and all that needs to be 
done is to compile smp and smt into the kernel... then reboot the new kernel. 
If you've got fb support in kernel and used to see one penguin at boot time, 
you'll see two penguins with an smp enabled kernel.


Cheers.