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

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

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Message-id: 20220413231456.35811-1-heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com
[PMM: minor punctuation tweaks]
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
index 1544632b67432233456cfb960e709198e2206ab8..1297dff5228205c7b7795eb7541cd5e948c37b32 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ gic-version
   Valid values are:
 
   ``2``
-    GICv2
+    GICv2. Note that 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``