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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_LRCPC (Load-acquire RCpc instructions)
28- FEAT_LRCPC2 (Load-acquire RCpc instructions v2)
29- FEAT_LSE (Large System Extensions)
30- FEAT_MTE (Memory Tagging Extension)
31- FEAT_MTE2 (Memory Tagging Extension)
32- FEAT_MTE3 (MTE Asymmetric Fault Handling)
33- FEAT_PAN (Privileged access never)
34- FEAT_PAN2 (AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants affected by PSTATE.PAN)
35- FEAT_PAuth (Pointer authentication)
36- FEAT_PMULL (PMULL, PMULL2 instructions)
37- FEAT_PMUv3p1 (PMU Extensions v3.1)
38- FEAT_PMUv3p4 (PMU Extensions v3.4)
39- FEAT_RDM (Advanced SIMD rounding double multiply accumulate instructions)
40- FEAT_RNG (Random number generator)
41- FEAT_SB (Speculation Barrier)
42- FEAT_SEL2 (Secure EL2)
43- FEAT_SHA1 (SHA1 instructions)
44- FEAT_SHA256 (SHA256 instructions)
45- FEAT_SHA3 (Advanced SIMD SHA3 instructions)
46- FEAT_SHA512 (Advanced SIMD SHA512 instructions)
47- FEAT_SM3 (Advanced SIMD SM3 instructions)
48- FEAT_SM4 (Advanced SIMD SM4 instructions)
49- FEAT_SPECRES (Speculation restriction instructions)
50- FEAT_SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe)
51- FEAT_TLBIOS (TLB invalidate instructions in Outer Shareable domain)
52- FEAT_TLBIRANGE (TLB invalidate range instructions)
53- FEAT_TTCNP (Translation table Common not private translations)
54- FEAT_TTST (Small translation tables)
55- FEAT_UAO (Unprivileged Access Override control)
56- FEAT_VHE (Virtualization Host Extensions)
57- FEAT_VMID16 (16-bit VMID)
58- FEAT_XNX (Translation table stage 2 Unprivileged Execute-never)
59- SVE (The Scalable Vector Extension)
60- SVE2 (The Scalable Vector Extension v2)
61
62For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
63to the `Armv8-A Arm Architecture Reference Manual
64<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest>`_.
65
66When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
67are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
68not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
69hardware should have it.) The ``max`` CPU enables all features.
70
71R-profile CPU architecture support
72==================================
73
74QEMU's TCG emulation support for R-profile CPUs is currently limited.
75We emulate only the Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R5F CPUs.
76
77M-profile CPU architecture support
78==================================
79
80QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for Armv6-M, Armv7-M, Armv8-M, and
81Armv8.1-M versions of the M-profile architucture.  It also has support
82for the following architecture extensions:
83
84- FP (Floating-point Extension)
85- FPCXT (FPCXT access instructions)
86- HP (Half-precision floating-point instructions)
87- LOB (Low Overhead loops and Branch future)
88- M (Main Extension)
89- MPU (Memory Protection Unit Extension)
90- PXN (Privileged Execute Never)
91- RAS (Reliability, Serviceability and Availability): "minimum RAS Extension" only
92- S (Security Extension)
93- ST (System Timer Extension)
94
95For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
96to the `Armv8-M Arm Architecture Reference Manual
97<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0553/latest>`_.
98
99When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
100are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
101not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
102hardware should have it.) There is no equivalent of the ``max`` CPU for
103M-profile.
104