On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Expand the description slightly and quote ioctl(). I did ponder > mentioning something about why DRM ioctls are often missing but I see > we have the I915 ones so I guess its just no one has done them. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> > --- > docs/user/main.rst | 12 ++++++++---- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/docs/user/main.rst b/docs/user/main.rst > index b8ff203c212..05de904225c 100644 > --- a/docs/user/main.rst > +++ b/docs/user/main.rst > @@ -20,10 +20,14 @@ QEMU user space emulation has the following notable > features: > System call translation > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > -QEMU includes a generic system call translator. This means that the > -parameters of the system calls can be converted to fix endianness > -and 32/64-bit mismatches between hosts and targets. IOCTLs can be > -converted too. > +System calls are the principle interface between user-space and the > +kernel. Generally the same system calls exist on all versions of the > +kernel so QEMU includes a generic system call translator. The > +translator takes care of adjusting endianess, 32/64 bit parameter size > +and then calling the equivalent host system call. > + > +QEMU can also adjust device specific ``ioctl()`` calls in a similar > +fashion. > > POSIX signal handling > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- > 2.47.2 > >
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidiana...@linaro.org>
