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@@ -370,8 +370,10 @@ A: There is no clear spec defined way from ACPI that can give us that
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CPUs in MADT as hotpluggable CPUS. In the case there are no disabled CPUS
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we assume 1/2 the number of CPUs currently present can be hotplugged.
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- Caveat: Today's ACPI MADT can only provide 256 entries since the apicid field
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- in MADT is only 8 bits.
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+ Caveat: ACPI MADT can only provide 256 entries in systems with only ACPI 2.0c
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+ or earlier ACPI version supported, because the apicid field in MADT is only
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+ 8 bits. From ACPI 3.0, this limitation was removed since the apicid field
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+ was extended to 32 bits with x2APIC introduced.
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User Space Notification
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