From 7f800d34aa9cb5de1870f702bce66180fb899c44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:28:03 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add supported host CPU architectures section MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I was looking for such documentation, but couldn't find it. Add it to the build-platform.rst document. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell --- docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/about/deprecated.rst | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index 692323609e..bcb1549721 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -29,6 +29,39 @@ The `Repology`_ site is a useful resource to identify currently shipped versions of software in various operating systems, though it does not cover all distros listed below. +Supported host architectures +---------------------------- + +Those hosts are officially supported, with various accelerators: + + .. list-table:: + :header-rows: 1 + + * - CPU Architecture + - Accelerators + * - Arm + - kvm (64 bit only), tcg, xen + * - MIPS + - kvm, tcg + * - PPC + - kvm, tcg + * - RISC-V + - tcg + * - s390x + - kvm, tcg + * - SPARC + - tcg + * - x86 + - hax, hvf (64 bit only), kvm, nvmm, tcg, whpx (64 bit only), xen + +Other host architectures are not supported. It is possible to build QEMU on an +unsupported host architecture using the configure ``--enable-tcg-interpreter`` +option to enable the experimental TCI support, but note that this is very slow +and is not recommended. + +Non-supported architectures may be removed in the future following the +:ref:`deprecation process`. + Linux OS, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD ----------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 9ee355ec0b..3c2be84d80 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. _Deprecated features: + Deprecated features =================== -- 2.11.0