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| author | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2025-09-17 11:10:55 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2025-09-17 11:10:55 -0700 |
| commit | f0007b7f03e2d7fc33e71c3a582f2364c51a226b (patch) | |
| tree | 44b34bb98c293bbfe5c839eb73762141633eec70 /docs | |
| parent | 6be998b9863b470ab3f399f4e37cf3a9c59c8fd9 (diff) | |
| parent | aaf042299acf83919862c7d7dd5fc36acf4e0671 (diff) | |
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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 # -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- # # iQJNBAABCAA3FiEE4aXFk81BneKOgxXPPCUl7RQ2DN4FAmjJpt8ZHHBldGVyLm1h # eWRlbGxAbGluYXJvLm9yZwAKCRA8JSXtFDYM3vRGEACO3VrePiMIA9N7egqlUiGn # aRQVqIKeuPVj6TRVG7BSNWlAX8qvnOWOKg1yGVHDZv/nLvRje9UyfUAw7pf6jXod # bzxWBCPJ0J0eOB64Tz87WRCLltKB5pEN+uIG00PtpBcXT1ixYCDgBZXyD3mwuJ4Q # 5Yc5hEwQzpmh+EycLtfCHbmjKDw3x1ncpVlGceOG4h5fvzIvIhcNcZJXfAHhbhyO # Y4c5PELrCkCLZaTtSSxd6VJ+vXQ9bNWyKaSZu2KRRnLcMeAqw2Ic7dLPlkzCVyxM # PTOHy4TuDu+kqCbkxdnhpI6fvq5kcHyfTL6qX6tth8ZZS+qKGtvMEIXnYoy6q1kh # 4jV5vizK8avx31fSiuTKVpttRv4dC+Aq5QrcgYtIVMeOwtkWHv610D8gcFPmXoG+ # uHX9WdzOjrYOzXVKzJaCZF6b7L31ptSEfOrx7asBC9k2wPRwonFXg4JGNq16Yann # aAO5TM7NAUvM2IPgqS+Tf1Bk0iQqORxGfqzCyL76OO/QMMgfBy9elKH0UR0G+ePJ # yjpub1oWIELSXsQGMrdFo1W4/NIpFMTu3DP9W+6XRPu1AvrAx/AsrTuvSvXoeFY9 # d/U3yWAXm5XxRzbCIUg7ke8I8zLwRz924M5PA8vophvSnfDLS3V8CJHLwbz/PqYc # 0P2KCeI6d2NIhVik4mgEoQ== # =5tK3 # -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # gpg: Signature made Tue 16 Sep 2025 11:05:19 AM PDT # gpg: using RSA key E1A5C593CD419DE28E8315CF3C2525ED14360CDE # gpg: issuer "peter.maydell@linaro.org" # gpg: Good signature from "Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>" [unknown] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@gmail.com>" [unknown] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>" [unknown] # gpg: aka "Peter Maydell <peter@archaic.org.uk>" [unknown] # gpg: WARNING: The key's User ID is not certified with a trusted signature! # gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner. # Primary key fingerprint: E1A5 C593 CD41 9DE2 8E83 15CF 3C25 25ED 1436 0CDE * 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>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/removed-features.rst | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/arm/emulation.rst | 1 |
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) |