Re: >32 core support

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:46:00PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> For anyone interested in working on >32 core support here is a interesting
> link. It suggests that `bochs' can be patched to emulate a 48 core system.
> 
>       http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19192

QEMU (or, at least, 'Q' on OS X, which uses QEMU as its guts) supports
up to 128 CPUs, in 32 or 64 bit x86 emulation.

We have some trouble with its ACPI implementation, or did last I checked
(a long time ago) which made it difficult but not impossible to get a
32 CPU system going, which was the most I tried.

Thor