From: Mohamed Mediouni <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Phil Dennis-Jordan" <phil@philjordan.eu>,
"Cameron Esfahani" <dirty@apple.com>,
"Alexander Graf" <agraf@csgraf.de>,
"Mohamed Mediouni" <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>,
"Mads Ynddal" <mads@ynddal.dk>,
"Pedro Barbuda" <pbarbuda@microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 16/24] docs: arm: update virt machine model description
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:44:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251016184413.69870-2-mohamed@unpredictable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251016184413.69870-1-mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
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 <mohamed@unpredictable.fr>
---
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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-16 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-16 18:44 [PATCH v8 15/24] hw/arm: virt: cleanly fail on attempt to use the platform vGIC together with ITS Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` Mohamed Mediouni [this message]
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 17/24] whpx: arm64: clamp down IPA size Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 18/24] hw/arm, accel/hvf, whpx: unify get_physical_address_range between WHPX and HVF Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 19/24] whpx: arm64: implement -cpu host Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 20/24] target/arm: whpx: instantiate GIC early Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 21/24] whpx: arm64: gicv3: add migration blocker Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 22/24] whpx: enable arm64 builds Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 23/24] MAINTAINERS: update maintainers for WHPX Mohamed Mediouni
2025-10-16 18:44 ` [PATCH v8 24/24] whpx: apic: use non-deprecated APIs to control interrupt controller state Mohamed Mediouni
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