RE: [BUG?] Xeon with HyperThreading and linux-2.4.20-rc2

From: Steffen Persvold (sp@scali.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 11:00:29 EST

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On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Nakajima, Jun wrote:

> As Hugh pointed out, the MPS table should report the physical processors
> only even if HT is enabled. The major reason is to support legacy OSes that
> don't support HT well. If the BIOS has an option for you to enable/disable
> HT, then please use it.

But since my BIOS reports 4 CPU's in the MPS table (with HT enabled), I
guess the BIOS is doing something wrong ? Should I report this to the
vendor ?

Regards,

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