Detection of HTT

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Mon Nov 15 18:08:17 PST 2004


On Tuesday, 16. November 2004 02:41, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
> Is it possible to find out whether HTT is turned on in the BIOS without
> having to reboot ? acpidump(8) ?
>
> It's just that I notice that I have a HTT capable CPU:
>
> CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.19-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
>  
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC
>A,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS, HTT,TM,PBE>

Not all CPUs that advertise 'HTT' do actually offer multiple logical 
processors. sysutils/x86info is a nice utility which can provide this 
information ...

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