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Documentation / CPU hotplug: Rephrase the outdated description for MADT entries

More than 256 entries in ACPI MADT is supported from ACPI 3.0, so the
information in should be Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt updated.

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Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Hanjun Guo 12 years ago
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Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt

@@ -370,8 +370,10 @@ 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
    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.
    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.
+   Caveat: ACPI MADT can only provide 256 entries in systems with only ACPI 2.0c
+   or earlier ACPI version supported, because the apicid field in MADT is only
+   8 bits. From ACPI 3.0, this limitation was removed since the apicid field
+   was extended to 32 bits with x2APIC introduced.
 
 
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