<OT> I love my wife...

Jerry McBride mcbrides9
Sat Dec 31 12:53:00 PST 2005


On Saturday 31 December 2005 12:17, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 23:38, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Some BIOS's also have a setting to enable/disable the HT function.
>
>

Most normal computer BIOS's have all kinds of settings in them. Most COMPAQ's 
allow you to set the time, set various passwords and... that's about it.

FWIW, the smt function is working... But it ain't no show stopper.

Jerry






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