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charset="utf-8" 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 Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier --- docs/system/arm/virt.rst | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst index e5570773ba..b6e88c4f13 100644 --- a/docs/system/arm/virt.rst +++ b/docs/system/arm/virt.rst @@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ The virt board supports: - User-creatable SMMUv3 devices (see below for example) - 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 (>=3D 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 p= latform. + - If using a GICv2 or when ITS is not available or disabled, a GICv2m is= provided by default instead. + - Before virt-11.0, when using a GICv3 without the ITS, a GICv2m is not = provided. - 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) @@ -167,9 +168,11 @@ gic-version with TCG this is currently ``3`` if ``virtualization`` is ``off`` and ``4`` if ``virtualization`` is ``on``, but this may change in future) =20 +msi + Set ``auto``/``gicv2m``/``its``/``none`` to control MSI controller confi= guration. The default is ``auto``. + 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``. =20 iommu Set the IOMMU type to create for the guest. Valid values are: --=20 2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)