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On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 12:03 -0400, Denis wrote: |
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> I thought that dual-core processors would appear as two processors in |
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> Linux, or 4 with hyperthreading enabled. When I set up the kernel, I |
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> did compile in the SMP support, enhanced RTC, and chose Pentium 4 in |
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> processor family, among other things. I'm attaching my current |
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> .config file in case there's something I missed. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Denis |
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Make sure you have ACPI enabled in the BIOS and support compiled into |
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the kernel and enabled. Also, make sure you have the max number of |
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processors in the SMP section of the kernel config set appropriately. |
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Also, if you use /proc, then 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' or 'cat |
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'/proc/interrupts' and use that to see what's actually enabled. Check |
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'dmesg' as well and see how many processors were found and brought up. |
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I had trouble a year and a half ago with Hyperthreading on my Intel 531 |
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not getting enabled. ACPI wasn't enabled and that was the problem. It's |
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required for SMP to work fully, apparently. Of course, in the process, I |
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found out that on this system I couldn't use a PS/2 keyboard since ACPI |
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was causing an interrupt shuffle during the kernel boot and the keyboard |
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lost the lottery. So, a USB keyboard fixed that problem. |
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Hope some of that helps. |
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