Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>]

* Ricky Beam (jfbeam@bluetronic.net) wrote:
> 
> Your HT DC CPU counts as 4 cpus total... the same as two HT processors.
> The system does not fundamentally need to make a distinction on dual core
> vs. two actual chips + heat sinks + fans.  The system will perform almost
> identically (if not acutally identically) to a dual (single core) processor
> system.

That *might* be the case for a current one; but I'm sure dual core
processors will end up sharing a level of cache/bus arbitration
sometime.  Anyway it is a bit nasty not to real dual-core'd ness
to things, after all they might get upset if someone tried to hotswap
one.....

Dave
P.S. On the side note of early dual core chips; there is an R65c00/21
and R65c29 listed in a 1985 Rockwell datasheet I've got - dual 6502s!

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