diff --git a/docs/system/target-i386-desc.rst.inc b/docs/system/target-i386-desc.rst.inc
index 319e540573..ae312b1c1e 100644
--- a/docs/system/target-i386-desc.rst.inc
+++ b/docs/system/target-i386-desc.rst.inc
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:
 -  PCI UHCI, OHCI, EHCI or XHCI USB controller and a virtual USB-1.1
    hub.
 
-SMP is supported with up to 255 CPUs (and 4096 CPUs for PC Q35 machine).
+SMP is supported with a large number of virtual CPUs (upper limit is
+configuration dependent).
 
 QEMU uses the PC BIOS from the Seabios project and the Plex86/Bochs LGPL
 VGA BIOS.