Re: 5.0.7 Fresh Installion with Merge 5

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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:02:20 GMT

Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com> wrote in
news:20030925212145.GI24551@sco.com:

> Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
>
>> Marc Champagne typed (on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:57:53PM
>> +0000):
>> | "Bob Bailin" <72027.3605@compuserve.com> wrote in
>> | news:6jmcb.1868$Ql3.1@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com:
>> |
>> | >> What's the purpose of having an SMP license then?
>> | >
>> | > An SMP license is needed if you have more than one
>> | > physical CPU on your motherboard. A P4 with
>> | > hyperthreading presents itself to the system as two
>> | > virtual CPUs, and no license is needed for that 2nd
>> | > virtual CPU (but the SMP software needs to be
>> | > installed).
>> |
>> | in TA#125320 ( http://tinyurl.com/ooc1 ), there is a
>> | passage as follows:
>> |
>> | SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 with SCO OpenServer Update
>> | Pack 1 applied supports Hyperthreading.
>> |
>> | I would tend to believe (from the above TA) that
>> | installing SMP is not really needed.
>>
>> Oh come on. Cite the TA a bit more accurately.
>> SMP's really needed if you have, and expect to use, more
>> than one CPU.
>
> I would actually have to agree 100% with Marc. The cited
> TA, #125320, correctly explains the _licensing_ situation.
> It does not address the _installation_ situation at all.
> If I didn't know otherwise, I would read it to mean that
> you didn't have to install SMP.
>
> The correct truth is: OpenServer 5.0.7 supports
> HyperThreading when _both_ SCO SMP and Update Pack 1 are
> installed, in that order. No SMP license is required to
> use HyperThreading on the first physical CPU. UP1 makes the
> CPU licensing code aware of HT, so that SMP licenses are
> required only for additional _physical_ CPUs.
>
> I believe the same situation applies with UnixWare 7.1.3
> CPU licensing -- one CPU license required per additional
> _physical_ CPU. And again, the SMP software ("OSMP") must
> be installed.
>
> JPR, your last line is correct but confusing. "SMP's
> really needed if you have, and expect to use, more than one
> CPU." -- yes, but here we are talking about "logical" CPUs,
> of which a _single_ Xeon or HT-enabled P4 contains two. In
> order for either OS to manage more than one CPU -- whether
> logical or physical -- the respective SMP package is
> required.

Alright then I will make sure to add SMP before UP1 and defer
licensing as I only have 1 physical P4 with no HT support,
but who knows, maybe later.

Who writes these TA's, nothing has changed, SCO is as
confusing now, if not more, then back in the Xenix days with
BBS access.

Thanks

Marc Champagne

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