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author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2021-06-24 15:00:33 +0100 |
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committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2021-06-24 15:00:34 +0100 |
commit | ecba223da6215d6f6ce2d343b70b2e9a19bfb90b (patch) | |
tree | 92f75f460810dd6aaa8620f9a62144fc34b9badd /docs | |
parent | d0ac9a61474cf594d19082bc8976247e984ea9a3 (diff) | |
parent | 90a76c6316cfe6416fc33814a838fb3928f746ee (diff) |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20210624' into staging
target-arm queue:
* Don't require 'virt' board to be compiled in for ACPI GHES code
* docs: Document which architecture extensions we emulate
* Fix bugs in M-profile FPCXT_NS accesses
* First slice of MVE patches
* Implement MTE3
* docs/system: arm: Add nRF boards description
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* remotes/pmaydell/tags/pull-target-arm-20210624: (57 commits)
docs/system: arm: Add nRF boards description
target/arm: Implement MTE3
target/arm: Make VMOV scalar <-> gpreg beatwise for MVE
target/arm: Implement MVE VADDV
target/arm: Implement MVE VHCADD
target/arm: Implement MVE VCADD
target/arm: Implement MVE VADC, VSBC
target/arm: Implement MVE VRHADD
target/arm: Implement MVE VQDMULL (vector)
target/arm: Implement MVE VQDMLSDH and VQRDMLSDH
target/arm: Implement MVE VQDMLADH and VQRDMLADH
target/arm: Implement MVE VRSHL
target/arm: Implement MVE VSHL insn
target/arm: Implement MVE VQRSHL
target/arm: Implement MVE VQSHL (vector)
target/arm: Implement MVE VQADD, VQSUB (vector)
target/arm: Implement MVE VQDMULH, VQRDMULH (vector)
target/arm: Implement MVE VQDMULL scalar
target/arm: Implement MVE VQDMULH and VQRDMULH (scalar)
target/arm: Implement MVE VQADD and VQSUB
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/system/arm/emulation.rst | 103 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/system/arm/nrf.rst | 51 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/system/target-arm.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..144dc491d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +A-profile CPU architecture support +================================== + +QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for the Armv5, Armv6, Armv7 and +Armv8 versions of the A-profile architecture. It also has support for +the following architecture extensions: + +- FEAT_AA32BF16 (AArch32 BFloat16 instructions) +- FEAT_AA32HPD (AArch32 hierarchical permission disables) +- FEAT_AA32I8MM (AArch32 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions) +- FEAT_AES (AESD and AESE instructions) +- FEAT_BF16 (AArch64 BFloat16 instructions) +- FEAT_BTI (Branch Target Identification) +- FEAT_DIT (Data Independent Timing instructions) +- FEAT_DPB (DC CVAP instruction) +- FEAT_DotProd (Advanced SIMD dot product instructions) +- FEAT_FCMA (Floating-point complex number instructions) +- FEAT_FHM (Floating-point half-precision multiplication instructions) +- FEAT_FP16 (Half-precision floating-point data processing) +- FEAT_FRINTTS (Floating-point to integer instructions) +- FEAT_FlagM (Flag manipulation instructions v2) +- FEAT_FlagM2 (Enhancements to flag manipulation instructions) +- FEAT_HPDS (Hierarchical permission disables) +- FEAT_I8MM (AArch64 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions) +- FEAT_JSCVT (JavaScript conversion instructions) +- FEAT_LOR (Limited ordering regions) +- FEAT_LRCPC (Load-acquire RCpc instructions) +- FEAT_LRCPC2 (Load-acquire RCpc instructions v2) +- FEAT_LSE (Large System Extensions) +- FEAT_MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) +- FEAT_MTE2 (Memory Tagging Extension) +- FEAT_MTE3 (MTE Asymmetric Fault Handling) +- FEAT_PAN (Privileged access never) +- FEAT_PAN2 (AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants affected by PSTATE.PAN) +- FEAT_PAuth (Pointer authentication) +- FEAT_PMULL (PMULL, PMULL2 instructions) +- FEAT_PMUv3p1 (PMU Extensions v3.1) +- FEAT_PMUv3p4 (PMU Extensions v3.4) +- FEAT_RDM (Advanced SIMD rounding double multiply accumulate instructions) +- FEAT_RNG (Random number generator) +- FEAT_SB (Speculation Barrier) +- FEAT_SEL2 (Secure EL2) +- FEAT_SHA1 (SHA1 instructions) +- FEAT_SHA256 (SHA256 instructions) +- FEAT_SHA3 (Advanced SIMD SHA3 instructions) +- FEAT_SHA512 (Advanced SIMD SHA512 instructions) +- FEAT_SM3 (Advanced SIMD SM3 instructions) +- FEAT_SM4 (Advanced SIMD SM4 instructions) +- FEAT_SPECRES (Speculation restriction instructions) +- FEAT_SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe) +- FEAT_TLBIOS (TLB invalidate instructions in Outer Shareable domain) +- FEAT_TLBIRANGE (TLB invalidate range instructions) +- FEAT_TTCNP (Translation table Common not private translations) +- FEAT_TTST (Small translation tables) +- FEAT_UAO (Unprivileged Access Override control) +- FEAT_VHE (Virtualization Host Extensions) +- FEAT_VMID16 (16-bit VMID) +- FEAT_XNX (Translation table stage 2 Unprivileged Execute-never) +- SVE (The Scalable Vector Extension) +- SVE2 (The Scalable Vector Extension v2) + +For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer +to the `Armv8-A Arm Architecture Reference Manual +<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest>`_. + +When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which +are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is +not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real +hardware should have it.) The ``max`` CPU enables all features. + +R-profile CPU architecture support +================================== + +QEMU's TCG emulation support for R-profile CPUs is currently limited. +We emulate only the Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R5F CPUs. + +M-profile CPU architecture support +================================== + +QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for Armv6-M, Armv7-M, Armv8-M, and +Armv8.1-M versions of the M-profile architucture. It also has support +for the following architecture extensions: + +- FP (Floating-point Extension) +- FPCXT (FPCXT access instructions) +- HP (Half-precision floating-point instructions) +- LOB (Low Overhead loops and Branch future) +- M (Main Extension) +- MPU (Memory Protection Unit Extension) +- PXN (Privileged Execute Never) +- RAS (Reliability, Serviceability and Availability): "minimum RAS Extension" only +- S (Security Extension) +- ST (System Timer Extension) + +For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer +to the `Armv8-M Arm Architecture Reference Manual +<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0553/latest>`_. + +When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which +are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is +not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real +hardware should have it.) There is no equivalent of the ``max`` CPU for +M-profile. diff --git a/docs/system/arm/nrf.rst b/docs/system/arm/nrf.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eda87bd760 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/system/arm/nrf.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +Nordic nRF boards (``microbit``) +================================ + +The `Nordic nRF`_ chips are a family of ARM-based System-on-Chip that +are designed to be used for low-power and short-range wireless solutions. + +.. _Nordic nRF: https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products + +The nRF51 series is the first series for short range wireless applications. +It is superseded by the nRF52 series. +The following machines are based on this chip : + +- ``microbit`` BBC micro:bit board with nRF51822 SoC + +There are other series such as nRF52, nRF53 and nRF91 which are currently not +supported by QEMU. + +Supported devices +----------------- + + * ARM Cortex-M0 (ARMv6-M) + * Serial ports (UART) + * Clock controller + * Timers + * Random Number Generator (RNG) + * GPIO controller + * NVMC + * SWI + +Missing devices +--------------- + + * Watchdog + * Real-Time Clock (RTC) controller + * TWI (i2c) + * SPI controller + * Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) + * Quadrature decoder + * Radio + +Boot options +------------ + +The Micro:bit machine can be started using the ``-device`` option to load a +firmware in `ihex format`_. Example: + +.. _ihex format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ qemu-system-arm -M microbit -device loader,file=test.hex diff --git a/docs/system/target-arm.rst b/docs/system/target-arm.rst index edd013c7bb..13b3eeaf07 100644 --- a/docs/system/target-arm.rst +++ b/docs/system/target-arm.rst @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ undocumented; you can get a complete list by running arm/digic arm/musicpal arm/gumstix + arm/nrf arm/nseries arm/nuvoton arm/orangepi @@ -99,6 +100,12 @@ undocumented; you can get a complete list by running arm/virt arm/xlnx-versal-virt +Emulated CPU architecture support +================================= + +.. toctree:: + arm/emulation + Arm CPU features ================ |