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Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zen.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zen.linaroharston (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0AF1FFBF; Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:04:26 +0100 (BST) From: =?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: =?utf-8?q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= , Paolo Bonzini , Stefan Hajnoczi , Leonardo Bras , Laurent Vivier , Peter Xu , Juan Quintela , Beraldo Leal , Radoslaw Biernacki , Qiuhao Li , Peter Maydell , Yanan Wang , Riku Voipio , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta , Mahmoud Mandour , Alexandre Iooss , =?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= , =?utf-8?q?Philippe_M?= =?utf-8?q?athieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Eduardo Habkost , Thomas Huth , Laurent Vivier , Bin Meng , Marcel Apfelbaum , Bandan Das , Cleber Rosa , Richard Henderson , Leif Lindholm , Marcin Juszkiewicz , qemu-arm@nongnu.org, Darren Kenny , Alexander Bulekov Subject: [PATCH v4 22/38] docs/devel: add some front matter to the devel index Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:04:07 +0100 Message-Id: <20230630180423.558337-23-alex.bennee@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 In-Reply-To: <20230630180423.558337-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> References: <20230630180423.558337-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::32c; envelope-from=alex.bennee@linaro.org; helo=mail-wm1-x32c.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Give an overview of the most useful bits of the devel documentation to read depending on what the developer wants to do. Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Message-Id: <20230623122100.1640995-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org> --- v2 - removed excessive start --- docs/devel/index-process.rst | 2 ++ docs/devel/index-tcg.rst | 2 ++ docs/devel/index.rst | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- docs/devel/tcg.rst | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/devel/index-process.rst b/docs/devel/index-process.rst index d50dd74c3e..362f97ee30 100644 --- a/docs/devel/index-process.rst +++ b/docs/devel/index-process.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _development_process: + QEMU Community Processes ------------------------ diff --git a/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst b/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst index b44ff8b5a4..a992844e5c 100644 --- a/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst +++ b/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _tcg: + TCG Emulation ------------- diff --git a/docs/devel/index.rst b/docs/devel/index.rst index 09cfb322be..abf60457c2 100644 --- a/docs/devel/index.rst +++ b/docs/devel/index.rst @@ -2,10 +2,30 @@ Developer Information --------------------- -This section of the manual documents various parts of the internals of QEMU. -You only need to read it if you are interested in reading or +This section of the manual documents various parts of the internals of +QEMU. You only need to read it if you are interested in reading or modifying QEMU's source code. +QEMU is a large and mature project with a number of complex subsystems +that can be overwhelming to understand. The development documentation +is not comprehensive but hopefully presents enough to get you started. +If there are areas that are unclear please reach out either via the +IRC channel or mailing list and hopefully we can improve the +documentation for future developers. + +All developers will want to familiarise themselves with +:ref:`development_process` and how the community interacts. Please pay +particular attention to the :ref:`coding-style` and +:ref:`submitting-a-patch` sections to avoid common pitfalls. + +If you wish to implement a new hardware model you will want to read +through the :ref:`qom` documentation to understand how QEMU's object +model works. + +Those wishing to enhance or add new CPU emulation capabilities will +want to read our :ref:`tcg` documentation, especially the overview of +the :ref:`tcg_internals`. + .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg.rst b/docs/devel/tcg.rst index b4096a17df..2786f2f679 100644 --- a/docs/devel/tcg.rst +++ b/docs/devel/tcg.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _tcg_internals: + ==================== Translator Internals ====================