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[174.21.143.238]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z25sm6611940pfg.140.2020.07.01.12.45.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 01 Jul 2020 12:45:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] docs/booting.rst: start documenting the boot process To: =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org References: <20200701161153.30988-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> <20200701161153.30988-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org> From: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <56bd2532-a949-456b-bf70-025864439f41@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 12:45:51 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200701161153.30988-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::442; envelope-from=richard.henderson@linaro.org; helo=mail-pf1-x442.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 7/1/20 9:11 AM, Alex Bennée wrote: > While working on some test cases I realised there was quite a lot of > assumed knowledge about how things boot up. I thought it would be > worth gathering this together in a user facing document where we could > pour in the details and background to the boot process. As it's quite > wordy I thought it should be a separate document to the manual (which > can obviously reference this). > > The document follows the socratic method and leaves the reader to ask > themselves some questions in an effort to elucidate them about any > problems they may be having. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée > Message-Id: <20190308211557.22589-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson r~