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2023-05-02bsd-user: Add '-one-insn-per-tb' option equivalent to '-singlestep'Peter Maydell
The '-singlestep' option is confusing, because it doesn't actually have anything to do with single-stepping the CPU. What it does do is force TCG emulation to put one guest instruction in each TB, which can be useful in some situations. Create a new command line argument -one-insn-per-tb, so we can document that -singlestep is just a deprecated synonym for it, and eventually perhaps drop it. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2023-05-02linux-user: Add '-one-insn-per-tb' option equivalent to '-singlestep'Peter Maydell
The '-singlestep' option is confusing, because it doesn't actually have anything to do with single-stepping the CPU. What it does do is force TCG emulation to put one guest instruction in each TB, which can be useful in some situations. Create a new command line argument -one-insn-per-tb, so we can document that -singlestep is just a deprecated synonym for it, and eventually perhaps drop it. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2023-02-02docs: add hotlinks to about preface textAlex Bennée
Make it easier to navigate the documentation. Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-20-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2022-02-09linux-user: Remove the deprecated ppc64abi32 targetThomas Huth
It's likely broken, and nobody cared for picking it up again during the deprecation phase, so let's remove this now. Since this is the last entry in deprecated_targets_list, remove the related code in the configure script, too. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20211215084958.185214-1-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20220112112722.3641051-32-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2021-09-13docs: standardize directory index to --- with overlinePaolo Bonzini
Use a standard heading format for the index.rst file in a directory. Using overlines makes it clear that individual documents can use e.g. === for chapter titles and --- for section titles, as suggested in the Linux kernel guidelines[1]. They could do it anyway, because documents included in a toctree are parsed separately and therefore are not tied to the same conventions for headings. However, keeping some consistency is useful since sometimes files are included from multiple places. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/sphinx.html Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2021-07-18docs: Remove "Contents:" lines from top-level subsectionsPeter Maydell
Since the top-level subsections aren't self-contained manuals any more, the "Contents:" lines at the top of each of their index pages look a bit odd; remove them. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20210705095547.15790-4-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2021-07-18docs: Stop calling the top level subsections of our manual 'manuals'Peter Maydell
We merged our previous multiple-manual setup into a single Sphinx manual, but we left some text in the various index.rst lines that still calls the top level subsections separate 'manuals'. Update them to talk about "this section of the manual" instead, and remove now-obsolete comments about how the index.rst files are the "top level page for the 'foo' manual". Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20210705095547.15790-3-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2021-05-14sphinx: adopt kernel readthedoc themeMarc-André Lureau
The default "alabaster" sphinx theme has a couple shortcomings: - the navbar moves along the page - the search bar is not always at the same place - it lacks some contrast and colours The "rtd" theme from readthedocs.org is a popular third party theme used notably by the kernel, with a custom style sheet. I like it better, perhaps others do too. It also simplifies the "Edit on Gitlab" links. Tweak a bit the custom theme to match qemu.org style, use the QEMU logo, and favicon etc. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20210323115328.4146052-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-04-01docs: simplify each section titleMarc-André Lureau
Now that we merged into one doc, it makes the nav looks nicer. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210323074704.4078381-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
2021-02-15docs/user: Remove outdated 'Quick Start' sectionPeter Maydell
The 'Quick Start' section of the userspace emulator documentation is very old and outdated. In particular: - it suggests running x86-on-x86 emulation, which is the least interesting possible use case - it recommends that users download tarballs of guest binaries from the QEMU web page which we no longer provide there There's nothing salvageable here; delete it all. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> Message-Id: <20201122000131.18487-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
2021-01-19docs: Build and install all the docs in a single manualPeter Maydell
When we first converted our documentation to Sphinx, we split it into multiple manuals (system, interop, tools, etc), which are all built separately. The primary driver for this was wanting to be able to avoid shipping the 'devel' manual to end-users. However, this is working against the grain of the way Sphinx wants to be used and causes some annoyances: * Cross-references between documents become much harder or possibly impossible * There is no single index to the whole documentation * Within one manual there's no links or table-of-contents info that lets you easily navigate to the others * The devel manual doesn't get published on the QEMU website (it would be nice to able to refer to it there) Merely hiding our developer documentation from end users seems like it's not enough benefit for these costs. Combine all the documentation into a single manual (the same way that the readthedocs site builds it) and install the whole thing. The previous manual divisions remain as the new top level sections in the manual. * The per-manual conf.py files are no longer needed * The man_pages[] specifications previously in each per-manual conf.py move to the top level conf.py * docs/meson.build logic is simplified as we now only need to run Sphinx once for the HTML and then once for the manpages5B * The old index.html.in that produced the top-level page with links to each manual is no longer needed Unfortunately this means that we now have to build the HTML documentation into docs/manual in the build tree rather than directly into docs/; otherwise it is too awkward to ensure we install only the built manual and not also the dependency info, stamp file, etc. The manual still ends up in the same place in the final installed directory, but anybody who was consulting documentation from within the build tree will have to adjust where they're looking. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 20210115154449.4801-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2020-12-17docs/user: Display linux-user binaries nicelyPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé
linux-user binaries are displayed altogether. Use the '*' character to force displaying them as bullet list (one list per architecture). Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> Message-Id: <20201119160838.1981709-1-f4bug@amsat.org> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
2020-11-10docs: add "page source" link to sphinx documentationDaniel P. Berrangé
Add a link to the top of the sidebar in every docs page that takes the user back to the source code in gitlab. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20201102130926.161183-5-berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2020-03-12docs: Be consistent about capitalization of 'Arm'Peter Maydell
The company 'Arm' went through a rebranding some years back involving a recapitalization from 'ARM' to 'Arm'. As a result our documentation is a bit inconsistent between the two forms. It's not worth trying to update everywhere in QEMU, but it's easy enough to make docs/ consistent. Note that "ARMv8" and similar architecture names, and older CPU names like "ARM926" still retain all-caps. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com> Message-id: 20200309215818.2021-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org
2020-03-06qemu-doc: convert user-mode emulation to a separate Sphinx manualPaolo Bonzini
The final addition to the set of QEMU manuals is the user-mode emulation manual, which right now is included in qemu-doc.texi. Extract it and convert it to rST, so that qemu-doc.texi covers only full system emulation. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Message-id: 20200228153619.9906-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org Message-id: 20200226113034.6741-2-pbonzini@redhat.com [PMM: Fix makefile conflicts; add user manual to index.rst and index.html.in; don't specify empty man_pages list; fixed a few comments to say 'user' rather than 'system'] Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>