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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_BF16 (AArch64 BFloat16 instructions)
13- FEAT_BTI (Branch Target Identification)
14- FEAT_DIT (Data Independent Timing instructions)
15- FEAT_DPB (DC CVAP instruction)
16- FEAT_DotProd (Advanced SIMD dot product instructions)
17- FEAT_FCMA (Floating-point complex number instructions)
18- FEAT_FHM (Floating-point half-precision multiplication instructions)
19- FEAT_FP16 (Half-precision floating-point data processing)
20- FEAT_FRINTTS (Floating-point to integer instructions)
21- FEAT_FlagM (Flag manipulation instructions v2)
22- FEAT_FlagM2 (Enhancements to flag manipulation instructions)
23- FEAT_HPDS (Hierarchical permission disables)
24- FEAT_I8MM (AArch64 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions)
25- FEAT_JSCVT (JavaScript conversion instructions)
26- FEAT_LOR (Limited ordering regions)
27- FEAT_LPA (Large Physical Address space)
28- FEAT_LPA2 (Large Physical and virtual Address space v2)
29- FEAT_LRCPC (Load-acquire RCpc instructions)
30- FEAT_LRCPC2 (Load-acquire RCpc instructions v2)
31- FEAT_LSE (Large System Extensions)
32- FEAT_LVA (Large Virtual Address space)
33- FEAT_MTE (Memory Tagging Extension)
34- FEAT_MTE2 (Memory Tagging Extension)
35- FEAT_MTE3 (MTE Asymmetric Fault Handling)
36- FEAT_PAN (Privileged access never)
37- FEAT_PAN2 (AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants affected by PSTATE.PAN)
38- FEAT_PAuth (Pointer authentication)
39- FEAT_PMULL (PMULL, PMULL2 instructions)
40- FEAT_PMUv3p1 (PMU Extensions v3.1)
41- FEAT_PMUv3p4 (PMU Extensions v3.4)
42- FEAT_RDM (Advanced SIMD rounding double multiply accumulate instructions)
43- FEAT_RNG (Random number generator)
44- FEAT_SB (Speculation Barrier)
45- FEAT_SEL2 (Secure EL2)
46- FEAT_SHA1 (SHA1 instructions)
47- FEAT_SHA256 (SHA256 instructions)
48- FEAT_SHA3 (Advanced SIMD SHA3 instructions)
49- FEAT_SHA512 (Advanced SIMD SHA512 instructions)
50- FEAT_SM3 (Advanced SIMD SM3 instructions)
51- FEAT_SM4 (Advanced SIMD SM4 instructions)
52- FEAT_SPECRES (Speculation restriction instructions)
53- FEAT_SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe)
54- FEAT_TLBIOS (TLB invalidate instructions in Outer Shareable domain)
55- FEAT_TLBIRANGE (TLB invalidate range instructions)
56- FEAT_TTCNP (Translation table Common not private translations)
57- FEAT_TTST (Small translation tables)
58- FEAT_UAO (Unprivileged Access Override control)
59- FEAT_VHE (Virtualization Host Extensions)
60- FEAT_VMID16 (16-bit VMID)
61- FEAT_XNX (Translation table stage 2 Unprivileged Execute-never)
62- SVE (The Scalable Vector Extension)
63- SVE2 (The Scalable Vector Extension v2)
64
65For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
66to the `Armv8-A Arm Architecture Reference Manual
67<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest>`_.
68
69When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
70are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
71not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
72hardware should have it.) The ``max`` CPU enables all features.
73
74R-profile CPU architecture support
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76
77QEMU's TCG emulation support for R-profile CPUs is currently limited.
78We emulate only the Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R5F CPUs.
79
80M-profile CPU architecture support
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82
83QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for Armv6-M, Armv7-M, Armv8-M, and
84Armv8.1-M versions of the M-profile architucture.  It also has support
85for the following architecture extensions:
86
87- FP (Floating-point Extension)
88- FPCXT (FPCXT access instructions)
89- HP (Half-precision floating-point instructions)
90- LOB (Low Overhead loops and Branch future)
91- M (Main Extension)
92- MPU (Memory Protection Unit Extension)
93- PXN (Privileged Execute Never)
94- RAS (Reliability, Serviceability and Availability): "minimum RAS Extension" only
95- S (Security Extension)
96- ST (System Timer Extension)
97
98For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
99to the `Armv8-M Arm Architecture Reference Manual
100<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0553/latest>`_.
101
102When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
103are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
104not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
105hardware should have it.) There is no equivalent of the ``max`` CPU for
106M-profile.
107