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author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2020-02-28 15:36:18 +0000 |
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committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2020-03-06 11:06:55 +0000 |
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docs: Remove old texinfo sources
We can now delete the old .texi files, which we have been keeping in
the tree as a parallel set of documentation to the new rST sources.
The only remaining use of Texinfo is the autogenerated manuals
and HTML documents created from the QAPI JSON doc comments.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20200228153619.9906-33-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi deleted file mode 100644 index c2b9c87..0000000 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,201 +0,0 @@ -\input texinfo @c -*- texinfo -*- -@c %**start of header -@setfilename qemu-doc.info -@include version.texi - -@documentlanguage en -@documentencoding UTF-8 - -@settitle QEMU version @value{VERSION} User Documentation -@exampleindent 0 -@paragraphindent 0 -@c %**end of header - -@set qemu_system qemu-system-x86_64 -@set qemu_system_x86 qemu-system-x86_64 - -@ifinfo -@direntry -* QEMU: (qemu-doc). The QEMU Emulator User Documentation. -@end direntry -@end ifinfo - -@iftex -@titlepage -@sp 7 -@center @titlefont{QEMU version @value{VERSION}} -@sp 1 -@center @titlefont{User Documentation} -@sp 3 -@end titlepage -@end iftex - -@ifnottex -@node Top -@top - -@menu -* Introduction:: -* QEMU System emulator:: -* QEMU System emulator targets:: -* Security:: -* Deprecated features:: -* Recently removed features:: -* Supported build platforms:: -* License:: -* Index:: -@end menu -@end ifnottex - -@contents - -@node Introduction -@chapter Introduction - -@menu -* intro_features:: Features -@end menu - -@node intro_features -@section Features - -QEMU is a FAST! processor emulator using dynamic translation to -achieve good emulation speed. - -QEMU has two operating modes: - -@itemize -@item Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for -example a PC), including one or several processors and various -peripherals. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems -without rebooting the PC or to debug system code. - -@item User mode emulation. In this mode, QEMU can launch -processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. It can be used to -launch the Wine Windows API emulator (@url{https://www.winehq.org}) or -to ease cross-compilation and cross-debugging. - -@end itemize - -QEMU has the following features: - -@itemize -@item QEMU can run without a host kernel driver and yet gives acceptable -performance. It uses dynamic translation to native code for reasonable speed, -with support for self-modifying code and precise exceptions. - -@item It is portable to several operating systems (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, -Windows) and architectures. - -@item It performs accurate software emulation of the FPU. -@end itemize - -QEMU user mode emulation has the following features: -@itemize -@item Generic Linux system call converter, including most ioctls. - -@item clone() emulation using native CPU clone() to use Linux scheduler for threads. - -@item Accurate signal handling by remapping host signals to target signals. -@end itemize - -QEMU full system emulation has the following features: -@itemize -@item -QEMU uses a full software MMU for maximum portability. - -@item -QEMU can optionally use an in-kernel accelerator, like kvm. The accelerators -execute most of the guest code natively, while -continuing to emulate the rest of the machine. - -@item -Various hardware devices can be emulated and in some cases, host -devices (e.g. serial and parallel ports, USB, drives) can be used -transparently by the guest Operating System. Host device passthrough -can be used for talking to external physical peripherals (e.g. a -webcam, modem or tape drive). - -@item -Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support. Currently, an in-kernel -accelerator is required to use more than one host CPU for emulation. - -@end itemize - -@node QEMU System emulator -@chapter QEMU System emulator - -@menu -* pcsys_quickstart:: Quick start -* sec_invocation:: Invocation -* pcsys_keys:: Keys in the graphical frontends -* mux_keys:: Keys in the character backend multiplexer -* pcsys_monitor:: QEMU Monitor -* disk_images:: Disk Images -* pcsys_network:: Network emulation -* pcsys_usb:: USB emulation -* pcsys_ivshmem:: Inter-VM Shared Memory device -* direct_linux_boot:: Direct Linux Boot -* vnc_security:: VNC security -* network_tls:: TLS setup for network services -* gdb_usage:: GDB usage -* managed_startup:: Managed startup options -@end menu - -@include docs/system/quickstart.texi -@include docs/system/invocation.texi -@include docs/system/keys.texi -@include docs/system/mux-chardev.texi -@include docs/system/monitor.texi -@include docs/system/images.texi -@include docs/system/net.texi -@include docs/system/usb.texi -@include docs/system/ivshmem.texi -@include docs/system/linuxboot.texi -@include docs/system/vnc-security.texi -@include docs/system/tls.texi -@include docs/system/gdb.texi -@include docs/system/managed-startup.texi - -@node QEMU System emulator targets -@chapter QEMU System emulator targets - -QEMU is a generic emulator and it emulates many machines. Most of the -options are similar for all machines. Specific information about the -various targets are mentioned in the following sections. - -@menu -* x86 (PC) System emulator:: -* PowerPC System emulator:: -* Sparc32 System emulator:: -* Sparc64 System emulator:: -* MIPS System emulator:: -* ARM System emulator:: -* ColdFire System emulator:: -* Xtensa System emulator:: -@end menu - -@include docs/system/target-i386.texi -@include docs/system/target-ppc.texi -@include docs/system/target-sparc.texi -@include docs/system/target-sparc64.texi -@include docs/system/target-mips.texi -@include docs/system/target-arm.texi -@include docs/system/target-m68k.texi -@include docs/system/target-xtensa.texi - -@include docs/system/security.texi - -@include docs/system/deprecated.texi - -@include docs/system/build-platforms.texi - -@include docs/system/license.texi - - -@node Index -@appendix Index - -@printindex fn - -@bye |