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[PATCH 4/5] docs/system/target-sparc: Improve the Sparc documentation
From: |
Thomas Huth |
Subject: |
[PATCH 4/5] docs/system/target-sparc: Improve the Sparc documentation |
Date: |
Thu, 7 Mar 2024 18:43:33 +0100 |
Add some words about how to enable or disable boolean features,
and remove the note about a Linux kernel being available on the
QEMU website (they have been removed long ago already).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
docs/system/target-sparc.rst | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/system/target-sparc.rst b/docs/system/target-sparc.rst
index 9ec8c90c14..9f418b9d3e 100644
--- a/docs/system/target-sparc.rst
+++ b/docs/system/target-sparc.rst
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ architecture machines:
The emulation is somewhat complete. SMP up to 16 CPUs is supported, but
Linux limits the number of usable CPUs to 4.
+The list of available CPUs can be viewed by starting QEMU with ``-cpu help``.
+Optional boolean features can be added with a "+" in front of the feature name,
+or disabled with a "-" in front of the name, for example
+``-cpu TI-SuperSparc-II,+float128``.
+
QEMU emulates the following sun4m peripherals:
- IOMMU
@@ -55,8 +60,7 @@ OpenBIOS is a free (GPL v2) portable firmware implementation.
The goal
is to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware)
compliant firmware.
-A sample Linux 2.6 series kernel and ram disk image are available on the
-QEMU web site. There are still issues with NetBSD and OpenBSD, but most
+There are still issues with NetBSD and OpenBSD, but most
kernel versions work. Please note that currently older Solaris kernels
don't work probably due to interface issues between OpenBIOS and
Solaris.
--
2.44.0