Re: [PATCH 0/4] docs: Miscellaneous rST conversions

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 17:01, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 25/02/20 16:41, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > This patchset converts some texi files used in qemu-doc.texi to rST:
> >
> >  * docs/security.texi
> >  * qemu-tech.texi
> >  * qemu-deprecated.texi
> >
> > which all end up as sections of the "system" manual.
> >
> > In all cases, these pieces of the documentation are part of
> > the qemu-doc HTML file, but not included in the qemu.1 manpage,
> > so they are just a straightforward format conversion.
> >
> > security and deprecated are pure conversions with only
> > changes to the formatting, not to the contents.
> >
> > For qemu-tech.texi, a large part of it was an extremely out of
> > date and partial attempt to document the limitations of our
> > CPU emulation. Apart from a change to the Xtensa section in
> > 2012, no part of the actual text seems to have been updated
> > since 2008. I judged it better to simply dump this rather
> > than carry it over. Creating an actually accurate section
> > about the limitations of the various guest architectures
> > is probably easier done from scratch if we want it and are
> > prepared to actually keep it up to date this time...
>
> I assume these are not meant to be applied now, except patch 2?

No, I intended them to be reviewable and applied now. Why
do you think we should wait?

thanks
-- PMM