Hyperthreading and Radeon 9800 HOWTO?

[James Wilkinson]

Frans Coppens wrote:
> Is Pentium 4 Hyperthreading supported by the kernel?

Yes.

> Heard some rumours about using a smp enabled kernel? 

Yes. Hyperthreading makes one CPU look rather like two to software, so
an SMP kernel is required.

This is implicit in the definition of symmetric multi-threading (which
it pleases Intel to call hyperthreading).

James.

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