hw/arm/virt: impact of gic-version on max CPUs

[PATCH] hw/arm/virt: impact of gic-version on max CPUs

Heinrich Schuchardt posted 1 patch 2 years ago

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docs/system/arm/virt.rst | 4 ++--
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[PATCH] hw/arm/virt: impact of gic-version on max CPUs

Posted by Heinrich Schuchardt 2 years ago

Describe that the gic-version influences the maximum number of CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
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 docs/system/arm/virt.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
index 1544632b67..1af3f6a0a8 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ gic-version
   Valid values are:
 
   ``2``
-    GICv2
+    GICv2 - This limits the number of CPUs to 8.
   ``3``
-    GICv3
+    GICv3 - This allows up to 512 CPUs.
   ``host``
     Use the same GIC version the host provides, when using KVM
   ``max``
-- 
2.34.1

Re: [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: impact of gic-version on max CPUs

Posted by Peter Maydell 2 years ago

On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 00:15, Heinrich Schuchardt
<heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Describe that the gic-version influences the maximum number of CPUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
> ---
>  docs/system/arm/virt.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Applied to target-arm.next, thanks. I tweaked the punctuation a
bit to use a full stop instead of a hyphen.

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