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 sean.anderson@seco.com ---
doc/usage/index.rst | 1 + .../semihosting.rst} | 35 +++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) rename doc/{README.semihosting => usage/semihosting.rst} (53%)
diff --git a/doc/usage/index.rst b/doc/usage/index.rst index 964d761e13..569da2bdd1 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/Bgbjjgi... for more information. +console I/O, etc. Please see `Arm's semihosting documentation +https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100863/latest/`_ 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 +http://www.arm.com/products/tools/models/fast-models/foundation-model.php`_. 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 <image> <address> [env var]