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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2024-01-18 12:48:17 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2024-01-18 12:48:17 +0000
commit88cf5fec91e50cd34bc002b633b4116228db0bc8 (patch)
treeac169c6e62de305d245d7f7e59e992a46946de03 /docs
parentf94e74a7e29482582cbb98acd0b3b10142c7712a (diff)
parent410c2a4d75f52f6a2fe978eda5a9b6f854afe5ea (diff)
Merge tag 'pull-target-arm-20240118' of https://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm into staging
target-arm queue: * docs/devel/docs: Document .hx file syntax * arm_pamax() no longer needs to do feature propagation * docs/system/arm/virt.rst: Improve 'highmem' option docs * STM32L4x5 Implement SYSCFG and EXTI devices * hw/timer: fix systick trace message * hw/arm/virt: Consolidate valid CPU types * load_elf: fix iterator's type for elf file processing # -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- # # iQJNBAABCAA3FiEE4aXFk81BneKOgxXPPCUl7RQ2DN4FAmWpHM4ZHHBldGVyLm1h # eWRlbGxAbGluYXJvLm9yZwAKCRA8JSXtFDYM3pZxD/sGIXvTeoOCsum7OFpArKoQ # J+wcy74pO526IDzjudgtwP8kFW09oVblMPgrt/68F9LY4Oa7sDNAZX/Xqlhs/hdJ # SVbOXArRmyLvgLpn8KVii9xk9iI/olMGt0S6KcXAErdgFud+JcCevbS0D5fAF4Ua # /G/4ldnwr+WcYUA5IIoi02ymSBm5VNeH2bKu0MPS3xpizjzgOFxWTBYwq3zkZYWD # w5GjH9+F+IC67CiAlCLvuQBqpGLdRwFBttU05hLtGXuSlnvS+FtJTooI7gGD17CR # 2wTa7qF716qDN1lNSIvxA6t8/dWNMIYCZYdlxJml476WzP3jECpth2WFWqE0G3yg # Orr7sFVB8X6JmtlR34srW6e3CZA3t+4FIWqcdELFLi5IQtJeer90jqQ9xwx4SttJ # nsHdy5M8txWSa61yAaDTXMID/smVlC7sWTKJrR9kV7v5+b9OPQ/R8k0mCODl5Aer # mzAVuCvUQVYK3j7fzprGrlldla57s3v78OAhqACLgKflK0+aJSJjglulPrSMK1z5 # bRPS5jLZjFwEi2VaLVg3LPJiBMDj1s/wAl0ycfCQSv2oEzvmpkw+Ar1HDc2NFe+d # 9dunbdhAZJMwh+ABIg7iMj+l0ncOXDa4DS+6BnjRxfECCa172u3viq1HATkLLAFI # GTkcJ5hIQzNEeg9ob0MDIg== # =Rfpe # -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # gpg: Signature made Thu 18 Jan 2024 12:42:54 GMT # gpg: using RSA key E1A5C593CD419DE28E8315CF3C2525ED14360CDE # gpg: issuer "peter.maydell@linaro.org" # gpg: Good signature from "Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>" [ultimate] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@gmail.com>" [ultimate] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>" [ultimate] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <peter@archaic.org.uk>" [ultimate] # Primary key fingerprint: E1A5 C593 CD41 9DE2 8E83 15CF 3C25 25ED 1436 0CDE * tag 'pull-target-arm-20240118' of https://git.linaro.org/people/pmaydell/qemu-arm: load_elf: fix iterator's type for elf file processing hw/arm/virt: Consolidate valid CPU types hw/timer: fix systick trace message tests/qtest: Add STM32L4x5 SYSCFG QTest testcase hw/arm: Connect STM32L4x5 SYSCFG to STM32L4x5 SoC hw/misc: Implement STM32L4x5 SYSCFG tests/qtest: Add STM32L4x5 EXTI QTest testcase hw/arm: Connect STM32L4x5 EXTI to STM32L4x5 SoC hw/misc: Implement STM32L4x5 EXTI docs/system/arm/virt.rst: Improve 'highmem' option docs target/arm: arm_pamax() no longer needs to do feature propagation docs/devel/docs: Document .hx file syntax Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/docs.rst60
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/index-build.rst1
-rw-r--r--docs/system/arm/b-l475e-iot01a.rst7
-rw-r--r--docs/system/arm/virt.rst8
4 files changed, 71 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/docs.rst b/docs/devel/docs.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7da067905b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/devel/docs.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+
+==================
+QEMU Documentation
+==================
+
+QEMU's documentation is written in reStructuredText format and
+built using the Sphinx documentation generator. We generate both
+the HTML manual and the manpages from the some documentation sources.
+
+hxtool and .hx files
+--------------------
+
+The documentation for QEMU command line options and Human Monitor Protocol
+(HMP) commands is written in files with the ``.hx`` suffix. These
+are processed in two ways:
+
+ * ``scripts/hxtool`` creates C header files from them, which are included
+ in QEMU to do things like handle the ``--help`` option output
+ * a Sphinx extension in ``docs/sphinx/hxtool.py`` generates rST output
+ to be included in the HTML or manpage documentation
+
+The syntax of these ``.hx`` files is simple. It is broadly an
+alternation of C code put into the C output and rST format text
+put into the documention. A few special directives are recognised;
+these are all-caps and must be at the beginning of the line.
+
+``HXCOMM`` is the comment marker. The line, including any arbitrary
+text after the marker, is discarded and appears neither in the C output
+nor the documentation output.
+
+``SRST`` starts a reStructuredText section. Following lines
+are put into the documentation verbatim, and discarded from the C output.
+
+``ERST`` ends the documentation section started with ``SRST``,
+and switches back to a C code section.
+
+``DEFHEADING()`` defines a heading that should appear in both the
+``--help`` output and in the documentation. This directive should
+be in the C code block. If there is a string inside the brackets,
+this is the heading to use. If this string is empty, it produces
+a blank line in the ``--help`` output and is ignored for the rST
+output.
+
+``ARCHHEADING()`` is a variant of ``DEFHEADING()`` which produces
+the heading only if the specified guest architecture was compiled
+into QEMU. This should be avoided in new documentation.
+
+Within C code sections, you should check the comments at the top
+of the file to see what the expected usage is, because this
+varies between files. For instance in ``qemu-options.hx`` we use
+the ``DEF()`` macro to define each option and specify its ``--help``
+text, but in ``hmp-commands.hx`` the C code sections are elements
+of an array of structs of type ``HMPCommand`` which define the
+name, behaviour and help text for each monitor command.
+
+In the file ``qemu-options.hx``, do not try to define a
+reStructuredText label within a documentation section. This file
+is included into two separate Sphinx documents, and some
+versions of Sphinx will complain about the duplicate label
+that results.
diff --git a/docs/devel/index-build.rst b/docs/devel/index-build.rst
index 57e8d39d98..90b406ca0e 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index-build.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index-build.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ the basics if you are adding new files and targets to the build.
build-system
kconfig
+ docs
testing
acpi-bits
qtest
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/b-l475e-iot01a.rst b/docs/system/arm/b-l475e-iot01a.rst
index 2b128e6b84..1a021b306a 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/b-l475e-iot01a.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/b-l475e-iot01a.rst
@@ -12,20 +12,19 @@ USART, I2C, SPI, CAN and USB OTG, as well as a variety of sensors.
Supported devices
"""""""""""""""""
-Currently, B-L475E-IOT01A machine's implementation is minimal,
-it only supports the following device:
+Currently B-L475E-IOT01A machine's only supports the following devices:
- Cortex-M4F based STM32L4x5 SoC
+- STM32L4x5 EXTI (Extended interrupts and events controller)
+- STM32L4x5 SYSCFG (System configuration controller)
Missing devices
"""""""""""""""
The B-L475E-IOT01A does *not* support the following devices:
-- Extended interrupts and events controller (EXTI)
- Reset and clock control (RCC)
- Serial ports (UART)
-- System configuration controller (SYSCFG)
- General-purpose I/Os (GPIO)
- Analog to Digital Converter (ADC)
- SPI controller
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
index 7c4c80180c..c245c52b7a 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst
@@ -96,7 +96,13 @@ mte
highmem
Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable placing devices and RAM in physical
address space above 32 bits. The default is ``on`` for machine types
- later than ``virt-2.12``.
+ later than ``virt-2.12`` when the CPU supports an address space
+ bigger than 32 bits (i.e. 64-bit CPUs, and 32-bit CPUs with the
+ Large Physical Address Extension (LPAE) feature). If you want to
+ boot a 32-bit kernel which does not have ``CONFIG_LPAE`` enabled on
+ a CPU type which implements LPAE, you will need to manually set
+ this to ``off``; otherwise some devices, such as the PCI controller,
+ will not be accessible.
compact-highmem
Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable the compact layout for high memory regions.