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Message-Id: <1371789019.2776.139@driftwood>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:30:19 -0500
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...aro.org,
linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation / cpu hotplug: remove outdated
description for MADT entries
On 06/20/2013 03:54:42 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> More than 256 entries in ACPI MADT is supported from ACPI 3.0
> Specification,
> So the outdated description for MADT entries should be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
> ---
> Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
> diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
> b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
> index 9f40135..2e36e40 100644
> --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
> @@ -370,9 +370,6 @@ A: There is no clear spec defined way from ACPI
> that can give us that
> CPUs in MADT as hotpluggable CPUS. In the case there are no
> disabled CPUS
> we assume 1/2 the number of CPUs currently present can be
> hotplugged.
>
> - Caveat: Today's ACPI MADT can only provide 256 entries since the
> apicid field
> - in MADT is only 8 bits.
> -
> User Space Notification
>
> Hotplug support for devices is common in Linux today. Its being used
> today to
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
>
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