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Tsirkin" , Igor Mammedov , Paolo Bonzini , Yanan Wang , =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= , Shannon Zhao , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Maydell , Marcel Apfelbaum , =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= , Pedro Barbuda , Zhao Liu , Roman Bolshakov Subject: [PATCH v7 16/24] docs: arm: update virt machine model description Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:55:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20251016165520.62532-17-mohamed@unpredictable.fr> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.1 In-Reply-To: <20251016165520.62532-1-mohamed@unpredictable.fr> References: <20251016165520.62532-1-mohamed@unpredictable.fr> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: 2VXZH75XKZT9jAzttdmyyJwzeEHNfDHa X-Proofpoint-GUID: 2VXZH75XKZT9jAzttdmyyJwzeEHNfDHa X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details-Enc: AW1haW4tMjUxMDE2MDEyMiBTYWx0ZWRfXzpYjYO8p3ePJ K0/rRlNsQEkZrAgp+DFHF7BvmhTCCAHZ0dz/F7+RXskkXz3QVfRx/dQLgty+PlL+u82aMtHCCQz 0vGh3oDovb42Ux0qxZWD3xesKIEbeC2ufRIZ3KM68bdj/nJRiOpxg9kpyPlKMpgHT0wZFUTUaMy k0ENtmyOJP/ouoSKV+hzLmgcJT22LB1eRz7ZgxggiZPtbvXlJKnYB369Rg8wiaduS7XLaE40NAU 55D/OLzaDvAMo8HA7PaAPW8OQdhxTWGQE1pLagPudS7/ppSpnqgBzP9Inb1G5GtgaCWKahRVM= X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.293,Aquarius:18.0.1121,Hydra:6.1.9,FMLib:17.12.80.40 definitions=2025-10-16_03,2025-10-13_01,2025-03-28_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 adultscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 malwarescore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 bulkscore=0 clxscore=1030 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.22.0-2506270000 definitions=main-2510160122 X-JNJ: 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 Update the documentation to match current QEMU. Remove the mention of pre-2.7 machine models as those aren't provided anymore. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Mediouni --- docs/system/arm/virt.rst | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst index 10cbffc8a7..fe95be991e 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst @@ -40,9 +40,10 @@ The virt board supports: - An optional SMMUv3 IOMMU - hotpluggable DIMMs - hotpluggable NVDIMMs -- An MSI controller (GICv2M or ITS). GICv2M is selected by default along - with GICv2. ITS is selected by default with GICv3 (>= virt-2.7). Note - that ITS is not modeled in TCG mode. +- An MSI controller (GICv2m or ITS). + - When using a GICv3, ITS is selected by default when available on the platform. + - If using a GICv2 or when ITS is not available, a GICv2m is provided by default instead. + - Before virt-10.2, a GICv2m is not provided when the ITS is disabled. - 32 virtio-mmio transport devices - running guests using the KVM accelerator on aarch64 hardware - large amounts of RAM (at least 255GB, and more if using highmem) @@ -167,8 +168,7 @@ gic-version ``4`` if ``virtualization`` is ``on``, but this may change in future) its - Set ``on``/``off`` to enable/disable ITS instantiation. The default is ``on`` - for machine types later than ``virt-2.7``. + Set ``on``/``off``/``auto`` to control ITS instantiation. The default is ``auto``. iommu Set the IOMMU type to create for the guest. Valid values are: -- 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)