Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:18:31 EST, Bill Davidsen said:
> > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:03:49 EST, Lennart Sorensen said:
> > > > I would expect any distribution should work on these (as long as the
> > > > kernel they use isn't too old.).  Of course if it is a Mac, you need a
> > > > distribution that supports their firmware (which is of course not a PC
> > > > bios).  As long as you can boot it, any i386 or amd64 kernel with smp
> > > > enabled should use all the processors present (well amd64 on the
> > > > core2duo and on the p4 if it is em64t enabled).
> > > amd64 will only work on a core2duo if it's a T7200 or higher - the
> > > lower numbers are 32-bit-only chipsets.  I admit not knowing what
> > > exact variant the Mac has.
> > I don't believe that's correct, the Intel features page indicates all 
> > core2 have both 64bit and virtualization. Perhaps some of the core (no 
> > 2) models didn't? Even the old 930 had those features by my notes.
>
> My screwup - the chart I looked at managed to get the Core and Core2 series
> mixed up. Here's a hopefully more canonical one:
>
> http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/proc_info_table.pdf
>
> Does however list some Core2 that don't do virtualization (page 3, the
> T5600 and T5500), which is what I think confused the author of the table
> that I misread. ;)

I missed those in terms of virtualization, but it seems that all core2 
support "intel 64" which I assume means emt64t, and what I thought 
Valdis meant by "the lower numbers are 32-bit-only chipsets." They all 
do seem to have 64bit, and should run 64bit Linux just fine.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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