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Cc: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAXCPU alterable in kernel config - needs testers
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On 10/8/06, Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think MAXCPU should not be great than 32, since we currently define
> > cpumask_t as an integer which now should be changed to a bitmap and
> > a group of operations like we did for sigset_t.
>
> This will need to be changed soon for T2 support.
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With the potential of needing to support 128 logical CPUs, I don't
think there's any way to get around this becoming alterable.

--- Harrison