[Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 1/2] Introduce -smp , maxcpus= flag to specify maximum number of CPUS.

[Jes Sorensen]

On 06/24/2009 11:15 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 12:02 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> > Actually this is on purpose. The PC machine has a max limit of 255, if
> > we use that as the max per default, you are going to get a BIOS
> > declaring 255 possible CPUs and certain broken operating systems are not
> > going to boot.
> >
> > So I will argue the code is correct as is.
>
> What about the various ARMs, powerpcs, and sparcs that we support?

None of them are affected by the maxcpus patch. They still have their
check making sure that the -smp argument doesn't exceed whats specified
in their machine description.

Jes