[luau] Hyper technology

[Warren Togami]

Jimen Ching wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, LinuxDan wrote:
> 
>>Just received MLB and CPU from Intel (DB45PEBT2 MLB and 2.53 P4 CPU) that
>>support hyper technology allowing one CPU to act as multiprocessors allowing
>>faster data rates and complex math computations.  I am eager to put it
>>together as soon as I get a worthy case and maybe even a DVD RW.  I am going
>>to dual boot XP and RH8 Server on this.
> 
> 
> At work, we bought one of these systems with dual P4 processors with this
> hyper technology.  My co-worker tried to get RedHat 7.3 to work on this
> system and failed.  The Linux kernel had trouble detecting the processor
> because of the hyper technology.  He had to disable this feature to get
> the kernel to boot.
> 
> I would be interested in finding out if you were able to get linux to boot
> with this feature enabled.
> 
> --jc

Hyperthreading you mean?  RH8.0, Mandrake 9.0 or SuSE 8.1 or newer 
should be able to handle it just fine.