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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 1/2] Introduce -smp , maxcpus= flag to specify maximum number of CPUS.
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:04:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A421666.6050902@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A41EEC9.9060003@redhat.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-24  8:35 [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/2] QEMU maxcpus support v2 Jes Sorensen
2009-06-24  8:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 1/2] Introduce -smp , maxcpus= flag to specify maximum number of CPUS Jes Sorensen
2009-06-24  9:02   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-06-24  9:02     ` Jes Sorensen
2009-06-24  9:15       ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-24 12:04         ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2009-06-24  8:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] QEMU BOCHS bios patches to use maxcpus value Jes Sorensen
2009-07-09 21:57   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-12  9:39     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-12 13:23       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-12 13:36         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-14  8:38     ` Jes Sorensen
2009-07-14  9:21       ` Filip Navara
2009-07-14  9:32         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-14 10:16           ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-14 11:15             ` Filip Navara
2009-07-14 11:21         ` Jes Sorensen

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