bug report

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:13:39PM +1000, herbert wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:52:24AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> >
> > > However, on a warty system:
> > > 
> > > dilinger at jack:~ $ dmesg |grep Hyper
> > > CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
> > > dilinger at jack:~ $ cat /proc/cmdline
> > > root=/dev/hda1 ro ht=on quiet splash
> > > 
> > > This is w/ linux-image-2.6.8.1-5-686-smp 2.6.8.1-16.18.
> 
> What does dmesg show on a kernel without this patch?

I just double-checked it here and ht=on is definitely working as
it's supposed to.

So what that means is that even without the patch you'll see the
message "CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled".  That is, your CPU/mobo
does not support hyper-threading.

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