From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] docs/system: Document some arm board models
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 11:05:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49f4fc6f-329b-9afc-92db-c59dd1ce67ea@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-67uGcwSu7mJ+w26xYqpTm4C0t3Yrr8gWCsA1VtHeaLg@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/15/20 10:51 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:03, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>> However I'd rather see the board documentation in the source code, and
>> extract it when building. It'd be harder to miss updating the
>> documentation when modifying the code.
>
> I definitely agree in principle; but for the moment at least
> we can have some documentation...
Yes, thank you very much for this effort!
>
>> Another way (rather than using external program to extract from source
>> code) can be to add a method/field to MachineClass, and once a build is
>> finished, we could run 'qemu-system-arch -M gendoc' which go thru all
>> machines and display the documentation properly formatted.
>
> The documentation needs to include all machines, not just
> the ones that got compiled into a particular binary, so
> I'm not sure this will work. I also would prefer it if
> we avoided having the docs build depend on doing a full
> binary build -- places like readthedocs will just do a docs
> build by invoking Sphinx directly, and we'd like the machine
> docs to be visible there.
Sphinx consumes docs/system/$arch/$machine.rst files committed to the
repository, and we don't need to build various qemu-system-arch to
generate the documentation.
If you work on a particular board, you might end up only building its
corresponding qemu-system-ARCH. Maybe we can add an extra-pass once a
binary is linked, and re-generate the docs/system/ARCH/$machine.rst
files, so if you modified a board and its documentation placeholder in
the code, when commiting your code change, you also have to commit the
rst changes.
Just brainstorming an idea for now ;)
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-07 15:18 [PATCH 0/5] docs/system: Document some arm board models Peter Maydell
2020-05-07 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/5] docs/system: Add 'Arm' to the Integrator/CP document title Peter Maydell
2020-05-14 13:54 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2020-05-15 9:00 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-07 15:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] docs/system: Sort Arm board index into alphabetical order Peter Maydell
2020-05-14 13:54 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2020-05-15 9:41 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-07 15:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] docs/system: Document Arm Versatile Express boards Peter Maydell
2020-05-14 13:55 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2020-05-15 9:54 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-07 15:18 ` [PATCH 4/5] docs/system: Document the various MPS2 models Peter Maydell
2020-05-14 13:56 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2020-05-15 9:55 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-07 15:18 ` [PATCH 5/5] docs/system: Document Musca boards Peter Maydell
2020-05-14 13:56 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2020-05-15 7:56 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-15 8:48 ` Peter Maydell
2020-05-15 9:06 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-15 9:56 ` Alex Bennée
2020-05-14 13:28 ` [PATCH 0/5] docs/system: Document some arm board models Peter Maydell
2020-05-15 8:03 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-15 8:51 ` Peter Maydell
2020-05-15 9:05 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2020-05-15 10:23 ` Peter Maydell
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