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authorRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>2025-09-17 11:10:55 -0700
committerRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>2025-09-17 11:10:55 -0700
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Merge tag 'pull-target-arm-20250916' of https://gitlab.com/pm215/qemu into staging
target-arm queue:
 * tests, scripts: Don't import print_function from __future__
 * Implement FEAT_ATS1A
 * Remove deprecated pxa CPU family
 * arm/kvm: report registers we failed to set
 * Expose SME registers to GDB via gdbstub
 * linux-user/aarch64: Generate ESR signal records
 * hw/arm/raspi4b: remove redundant check in raspi_add_memory_node
 * hw/arm/virt: Allow user-creatable SMMUv3 dev instantiation
 * system: drop the -old-param option

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* tag 'pull-target-arm-20250916' of https://gitlab.com/pm215/qemu: (36 commits)
  hw/usb/network: Remove hardcoded 0x40 prefix in STRING_ETHADDR response
  qtest/bios-tables-test: Update tables for smmuv3 tests
  qtest/bios-tables-test: Add tests for legacy smmuv3 and smmuv3 device
  bios-tables-test: Allow for smmuv3 test data.
  qemu-options.hx: Document the arm-smmuv3 device
  hw/arm/virt: Allow user-creatable SMMUv3 dev instantiation
  hw/pci: Introduce pci_setup_iommu_per_bus() for per-bus IOMMU ops retrieval
  hw/arm/virt: Add an SMMU_IO_LEN macro
  hw/arm/virt: Factor out common SMMUV3 dt bindings code
  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Update IORT for multiple smmuv3 devices
  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Re-arrange SMMUv3 IORT build
  hw/arm/smmu-common: Check SMMU has PCIe Root Complex association
  target/arm: Added test case for SME register exposure to GDB
  target/arm: Added support for SME register exposure to GDB
  target/arm: Increase MAX_PACKET_LENGTH for SME ZA remote gdb debugging
  arm/kvm: report registers we failed to set
  system: drop the -old-param option
  target/arm: Drop ARM_FEATURE_IWMMXT handling
  target/arm: Drop ARM_FEATURE_XSCALE handling
  target/arm: Remove iwmmxt helper functions
  ...

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/about/deprecated.rst34
-rw-r--r--docs/about/removed-features.rst26
-rw-r--r--docs/system/arm/emulation.rst1
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 2fa2c47b68..aa300bbd50 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -68,19 +68,6 @@ configurations (e.g. -smp drawers=1,books=1,clusters=1 for x86 PC machine) is
 marked deprecated since 9.0, users have to ensure that all the topology members
 described with -smp are supported by the target machine.
 
-``-old-param`` option for booting Arm kernels via param_struct (since 10.0)
-'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
-
-The ``-old-param`` command line option is specific to Arm targets:
-it is used when directly booting a guest kernel to pass it the
-command line and other information via the old ``param_struct`` ABI,
-rather than the newer ATAGS or DTB mechanisms. This option was only
-ever needed to support ancient kernels on some old board types
-like the ``akita`` or ``terrier``; it has been deprecated in the
-kernel since 2001. None of the board types QEMU supports need
-``param_struct`` support, so this option has been deprecated and will
-be removed in a future QEMU version.
-
 QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands
 ------------------------------------
 
@@ -236,27 +223,6 @@ Keeping 32-bit host support alive is a substantial burden for the
 QEMU project.  Thus QEMU will in future drop the support for all
 32-bit host systems.
 
-linux-user mode CPUs
---------------------
-
-iwMMXt emulation and the ``pxa`` CPUs (since 10.0)
-''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
-
-The ``pxa`` CPU family (``pxa250``, ``pxa255``, ``pxa260``,
-``pxa261``, ``pxa262``, ``pxa270-a0``, ``pxa270-a1``, ``pxa270``,
-``pxa270-b0``, ``pxa270-b1``, ``pxa270-c0``, ``pxa270-c5``) are no
-longer used in system emulation, because all the machine types which
-used these CPUs were removed in the QEMU 9.2 release. These CPUs can
-now only be used in linux-user mode, and to do that you would have to
-explicitly select one of these CPUs with the ``-cpu`` command line
-option or the ``QEMU_CPU`` environment variable.
-
-We don't believe that anybody is using the iwMMXt emulation, and we do
-not have any tests to validate it or any real hardware or similar
-known-good implementation to test against. GCC is in the process of
-dropping their support for iwMMXt codegen. These CPU types are
-therefore deprecated in QEMU, and will be removed in a future release.
-
 System emulator CPUs
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index 2d3a684e53..a5338e44c2 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -560,6 +560,18 @@ the options along with the machine models they were intended for.
 
 Use ``-run-with user=..`` instead.
 
+``-old-param`` option for booting Arm kernels via param_struct (removed in 10.2)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``-old-param`` command line option was specific to Arm targets:
+it was used when directly booting a guest kernel to pass it the
+command line and other information via the old ``param_struct`` ABI,
+rather than the newer ATAGS or DTB mechanisms. This option was only
+ever needed to support ancient kernels on some old board types
+like the ``akita`` or ``terrier``; it has been deprecated in the
+kernel since 2001. None of the board types QEMU supports need
+``param_struct`` support, so this option has been removed.
+
 
 User-mode emulator command line arguments
 -----------------------------------------
@@ -1138,6 +1150,20 @@ reason the maintainers strongly suspected no one actually used it.
 QEMU Nios II architecture was orphan; Intel has EOL'ed the Nios II
 processor IP (see `Intel discontinuance notification`_).
 
+iwMMXt emulation and the ``pxa`` CPUs (removed in 10.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``pxa`` CPU family (``pxa250``, ``pxa255``, ``pxa260``,
+``pxa261``, ``pxa262``, ``pxa270-a0``, ``pxa270-a1``, ``pxa270``,
+``pxa270-b0``, ``pxa270-b1``, ``pxa270-c0``, ``pxa270-c5``) were
+not available in system emulation, because all the machine types which
+used these CPUs were removed in the QEMU 9.2 release. We don't
+believe that anybody was using the iwMMXt emulation (which you
+would have to explicitly enable on the command line), and we did
+not have any tests to validate it or any real hardware or similar
+known-good implementation to test against. These CPUs have
+therefore been removed in linux-user mode as well.
+
 TCG introspection features
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst
index 4e8aca8b5d..6b04c96c8c 100644
--- a/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst
+++ b/docs/system/arm/emulation.rst
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ the following architecture extensions:
 - FEAT_AFP (Alternate floating-point behavior)
 - FEAT_Armv9_Crypto (Armv9 Cryptographic Extension)
 - FEAT_ASID16 (16 bit ASID)
+- FEAT_ATS1A (Address Translation operations that ignore stage 1 permissions)
 - FEAT_BBM at level 2 (Translation table break-before-make levels)
 - FEAT_BF16 (AArch64 BFloat16 instructions)
 - FEAT_BTI (Branch Target Identification)