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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] aarch64: raise max_cpus to 8
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] aarch64: raise max_cpus to 8 |
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Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:43:52 +0100 |
On 19 August 2014 22:33, Joel Schopp <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm running on a system with 8 cpus and it would be nice to have qemu
> support all of them. The attached patch does that and has been tested.
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> That said, I'm not sure if 8 is enough or if we want to bump this even higher
> now before systems with many more cpus come along. 255 anyone?
8 is the limit for a GICv2 system. But yes, we could have 8 CPUs
here; I think this was just copied over from the vexpress boards
(which have 4 because that hardware has 4.)
thanks
-- PMM