From: Sean Anderson Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:59:09 +0000 (-0400) Subject: doc: Convert semihosting readme to rST X-Git-Url: http://git.dujemihanovic.xyz/img/sics.gif?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0ed9b10810f17c5b5cb2ee962c6d4df29a65a9c;p=u-boot.git doc: Convert semihosting readme to rST This converts the semihosting readme to rST. I have tried to make only cosmetic changes, but I did fix up the first link (which was broken). Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson --- diff --git a/doc/usage/index.rst b/doc/usage/index.rst index 5b42579dfc..3e520530c6 100644 --- a/doc/usage/index.rst +++ b/doc/usage/index.rst @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Use U-Boot netconsole partitions cmdline + semihosting Shell commands -------------- diff --git a/doc/README.semihosting b/doc/usage/semihosting.rst similarity index 53% rename from doc/README.semihosting rename to doc/usage/semihosting.rst index f382d0131e..ed16e4d582 100644 --- a/doc/README.semihosting +++ b/doc/usage/semihosting.rst @@ -1,35 +1,40 @@ -SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ -/* - * Copyright 2014 Broadcom Corporation. - */ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ +.. Copyright 2014 Broadcom Corporation. + +Semihosting +=========== Semihosting is ARM's way of having a real or virtual target communicate with a host or host debugger for basic operations such as file I/O, -console I/O, etc. Please see -http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0471c/Bgbjjgij.html for more information. +console I/O, etc. Please see `Arm's semihosting documentation +`_ for more +information. For developing on armv8 virtual fastmodel platforms, semihosting is a valuable tool since it allows access to image/configuration files before eMMC or other NV media are available. There are two main ARM virtual Fixed Virtual Platform (FVP) models, -Versatile Express (VE) FVP and BASE FVP (See -http://www.arm.com/products/tools/models/fast-models/foundation-model.php) +`Versatile Express (VE) FVP and BASE FVP +`_. The initial vexpress64 u-boot board created here runs on the VE virtual platform using the license-free Foundation_v8 simulator. Fortunately, the Foundation_v8 simulator also supports the BASE_FVP model which companies can purchase licenses for and contain much more functionality. -So we can, in u-boot, run either model by either using the VE FVP (default), -or turning on CONFIG_BASE_FVP for the more full featured model. +So we can, in U-Boot, run either model by either using the VE FVP (default), +or turning on ``CONFIG_BASE_FVP`` for the more full featured model. -Rather than create a new armv8 board similar to armltd/vexpress64, add -semihosting calls to the existing one, enabled with CONFIG_SEMIHOSTING -and CONFIG_BASE_FVP both set. Also reuse the existing board config file +Rather than create a new armv8 board similar to ``armltd/vexpress64``, add +semihosting calls to the existing one, enabled with ``CONFIG_SEMIHOSTING`` +and ``CONFIG_BASE_FVP`` both set. Also reuse the existing board config file vexpress_aemv8.h but differentiate the two models by the presence or -absence of CONFIG_BASE_FVP. This change is tested and works on both the +absence of ``CONFIG_BASE_FVP``. This change is tested and works on both the Foundation and Base fastmodel simulators. -The semihosting code adds a command: +Loading files +------------- + +The semihosting code adds a "hostfs":: smhload
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