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1A-profile CPU architecture support
2==================================
3
4QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for the Armv5, Armv6, Armv7 and
5Armv8 versions of the A-profile architecture. It also has support for
6the following architecture extensions:
7
8- FEAT_AA32BF16 (AArch32 BFloat16 instructions)
9- FEAT_AA32HPD (AArch32 hierarchical permission disables)
10- FEAT_AA32I8MM (AArch32 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions)
11- FEAT_AES (AESD and AESE instructions)
12- FEAT_BBM at level 2 (Translation table break-before-make levels)
13- FEAT_BF16 (AArch64 BFloat16 instructions)
14- FEAT_BTI (Branch Target Identification)
15- FEAT_CSV2 (Cache speculation variant 2)
16- FEAT_CSV2_1p1 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 1.1)
17- FEAT_CSV2_1p2 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 1.2)
18- FEAT_CSV2_2 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 2)
19- FEAT_CSV3 (Cache speculation variant 3)
20- FEAT_DGH (Data gathering hint)
21- FEAT_DIT (Data Independent Timing instructions)
22- FEAT_DPB (DC CVAP instruction)
23- FEAT_Debugv8p2 (Debug changes for v8.2)
24- FEAT_Debugv8p4 (Debug changes for v8.4)
25- FEAT_DotProd (Advanced SIMD dot product instructions)
26- FEAT_FCMA (Floating-point complex number instructions)
27- FEAT_FHM (Floating-point half-precision multiplication instructions)
28- FEAT_FP16 (Half-precision floating-point data processing)
29- FEAT_FRINTTS (Floating-point to integer instructions)
30- FEAT_FlagM (Flag manipulation instructions v2)
31- FEAT_FlagM2 (Enhancements to flag manipulation instructions)
32- FEAT_HPDS (Hierarchical permission disables)
33- FEAT_I8MM (AArch64 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions)
34- FEAT_IESB (Implicit error synchronization event)
35- FEAT_JSCVT (JavaScript conversion instructions)
36- FEAT_LOR (Limited ordering regions)
37- FEAT_LPA (Large Physical Address space)
38- FEAT_LPA2 (Large Physical and virtual Address space v2)
39- FEAT_LRCPC (Load-acquire RCpc instructions)
40- FEAT_LRCPC2 (Load-acquire RCpc instructions v2)
41- FEAT_LSE (Large System Extensions)
42- FEAT_LVA (Large Virtual Address space)
43- FEAT_MTE (Memory Tagging Extension)
44- FEAT_MTE2 (Memory Tagging Extension)
45- FEAT_MTE3 (MTE Asymmetric Fault Handling)
46- FEAT_PAN (Privileged access never)
47- FEAT_PAN2 (AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants affected by PSTATE.PAN)
48- FEAT_PAuth (Pointer authentication)
49- FEAT_PMULL (PMULL, PMULL2 instructions)
50- FEAT_PMUv3p1 (PMU Extensions v3.1)
51- FEAT_PMUv3p4 (PMU Extensions v3.4)
52- FEAT_RAS (Reliability, availability, and serviceability)
53- FEAT_RDM (Advanced SIMD rounding double multiply accumulate instructions)
54- FEAT_RNG (Random number generator)
55- FEAT_SB (Speculation Barrier)
56- FEAT_SEL2 (Secure EL2)
57- FEAT_SHA1 (SHA1 instructions)
58- FEAT_SHA256 (SHA256 instructions)
59- FEAT_SHA3 (Advanced SIMD SHA3 instructions)
60- FEAT_SHA512 (Advanced SIMD SHA512 instructions)
61- FEAT_SM3 (Advanced SIMD SM3 instructions)
62- FEAT_SM4 (Advanced SIMD SM4 instructions)
63- FEAT_SPECRES (Speculation restriction instructions)
64- FEAT_SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe)
65- FEAT_TLBIOS (TLB invalidate instructions in Outer Shareable domain)
66- FEAT_TLBIRANGE (TLB invalidate range instructions)
67- FEAT_TTCNP (Translation table Common not private translations)
68- FEAT_TTL (Translation Table Level)
69- FEAT_TTST (Small translation tables)
70- FEAT_UAO (Unprivileged Access Override control)
71- FEAT_VHE (Virtualization Host Extensions)
72- FEAT_VMID16 (16-bit VMID)
73- FEAT_XNX (Translation table stage 2 Unprivileged Execute-never)
74- SVE (The Scalable Vector Extension)
75- SVE2 (The Scalable Vector Extension v2)
76
77For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
78to the `Armv8-A Arm Architecture Reference Manual
79<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest>`_.
80
81When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
82are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
83not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
84hardware should have it.) The ``max`` CPU enables all features.
85
86R-profile CPU architecture support
87==================================
88
89QEMU's TCG emulation support for R-profile CPUs is currently limited.
90We emulate only the Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R5F CPUs.
91
92M-profile CPU architecture support
93==================================
94
95QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for Armv6-M, Armv7-M, Armv8-M, and
96Armv8.1-M versions of the M-profile architucture.  It also has support
97for the following architecture extensions:
98
99- FP (Floating-point Extension)
100- FPCXT (FPCXT access instructions)
101- HP (Half-precision floating-point instructions)
102- LOB (Low Overhead loops and Branch future)
103- M (Main Extension)
104- MPU (Memory Protection Unit Extension)
105- PXN (Privileged Execute Never)
106- RAS (Reliability, Serviceability and Availability): "minimum RAS Extension" only
107- S (Security Extension)
108- ST (System Timer Extension)
109
110For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
111to the `Armv8-M Arm Architecture Reference Manual
112<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0553/latest>`_.
113
114When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
115are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
116not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
117hardware should have it.) There is no equivalent of the ``max`` CPU for
118M-profile.
119