Re: Intel MB + P4 HT: bios processors logo depends on what?

[Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@tuleriit.ee>]

Indrek Kruusa wrote:

> A bit silly point maybe but it is somewhat interesting what makes BIOS 
> on Intel motherboard decide which processor's logo to display.
>
> Situation:
>
> a) Fedora Core 4 test1  + kernel-2.6.11-1.1177_FC4smp
> - going to reboot from fedora the bios shows always processors logo 
> with HT marks
>
> b) Mandrake 10.2 rc1 + kernel-2.6.11-5mdksmp
> - after reboot there is processor logo without HT marks
>
> c) Mandrake + kernel-2.6.12-rc1-mm1 (compiled with SMP+SMT)
> - same as b)
>
>
> There is nothing wrong with those kernels but it is interesting why 
> Fedora's kernel (acpi daemon?) is somewhat special here.



There was missing d) Fedora + kernel-2.6.12-rc1-mm1  :) And bios shows 
that I have hyperthreading processor.

It is difference between distros not kernels.


Indrek

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