HypterThreading (Was: Re: right kernel-image for pentium M)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:24:18AM +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:10 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The 686 kernel works fine on Pentium M processors.  386 is installed by
> > default because that is the kernel included on the CD, and it works for all
> > machines.
> 
> Are there any plans to install smp kernels for hyperthreading CPUs or to
> enable hypterthreading in any other way? I don't know how much
> difference it really makes, but I would feel bad knowing that this
> feature would go to waste. :)
> (I filed this previously as RFE bug #1340)

The reason this doesn't happen by default is that there is only a single
kernel on the CD (due to space considerations).

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 - mdz