Re: Dual core CPUs support

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:12:22PM +0100, Tomas Randa wrote:
> Hello all friends of FreeBSD unix,
>
> I?d like to ask here, what is the actual situation with dual core CPUs -
> Athlon 64 X2 etc. and their functionality with FreeBSD 5.X / 6.X / 7.0
> current.
>
> I tried 5.4/i386 with options SMP, 6.0/i386 with the same config, in
> both cases system found only one CPU, but on 5.4 system wrote HTT 2
> logical units.
>
The i386 version disables HTT by default (see the security
notices for summer 2005 or thereabouts), so I am not surprised that
your second core is ignored/not reported. There is a switch that
will enable the HTT (second core, in your case) if you wish.

As another poster mentiond, the AMD64 version of FBSD will
recognise the second core as expected.

Bruce
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