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+A-profile CPU architecture support
+==================================
+
+QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for the Armv5, Armv6, Armv7 and
+Armv8 versions of the A-profile architecture. It also has support for
+the following architecture extensions:
+
+- FEAT_AA32BF16 (AArch32 BFloat16 instructions)
+- FEAT_AA32HPD (AArch32 hierarchical permission disables)
+- FEAT_AA32I8MM (AArch32 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions)
+- FEAT_AES (AESD and AESE instructions)
+- FEAT_BBM at level 2 (Translation table break-before-make levels)
+- FEAT_BF16 (AArch64 BFloat16 instructions)
+- FEAT_BTI (Branch Target Identification)
+- FEAT_CSV2 (Cache speculation variant 2)
+- FEAT_CSV2_1p1 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 1.1)
+- FEAT_CSV2_1p2 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 1.2)
+- FEAT_CSV2_2 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 2)
+- FEAT_CSV3 (Cache speculation variant 3)
+- FEAT_DGH (Data gathering hint)
+- FEAT_DIT (Data Independent Timing instructions)
+- FEAT_DPB (DC CVAP instruction)
+- FEAT_Debugv8p2 (Debug changes for v8.2)
+- FEAT_Debugv8p4 (Debug changes for v8.4)
+- FEAT_DotProd (Advanced SIMD dot product instructions)
+- FEAT_DoubleFault (Double Fault Extension)
+- FEAT_E0PD (Preventing EL0 access to halves of address maps)
+- FEAT_ETS (Enhanced Translation Synchronization)
+- FEAT_FCMA (Floating-point complex number instructions)
+- FEAT_FHM (Floating-point half-precision multiplication instructions)
+- FEAT_FP16 (Half-precision floating-point data processing)
+- FEAT_FRINTTS (Floating-point to integer instructions)
+- FEAT_FlagM (Flag manipulation instructions v2)
+- FEAT_FlagM2 (Enhancements to flag manipulation instructions)
+- FEAT_GTG (Guest translation granule size)
+- FEAT_HAFDBS (Hardware management of the access flag and dirty bit state)
+- FEAT_HCX (Support for the HCRX_EL2 register)
+- FEAT_HPDS (Hierarchical permission disables)
+- FEAT_I8MM (AArch64 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions)
+- FEAT_IDST (ID space trap handling)
+- FEAT_IESB (Implicit error synchronization event)
+- FEAT_JSCVT (JavaScript conversion instructions)
+- FEAT_LOR (Limited ordering regions)
+- FEAT_LPA (Large Physical Address space)
+- FEAT_LPA2 (Large Physical and virtual Address space v2)
+- FEAT_LRCPC (Load-acquire RCpc instructions)
+- FEAT_LRCPC2 (Load-acquire RCpc instructions v2)
+- FEAT_LSE (Large System Extensions)
+- FEAT_LVA (Large Virtual Address space)
+- FEAT_MTE (Memory Tagging Extension)
+- FEAT_MTE2 (Memory Tagging Extension)
+- FEAT_MTE3 (MTE Asymmetric Fault Handling)
+- FEAT_PAN (Privileged access never)
+- FEAT_PAN2 (AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants affected by PSTATE.PAN)
+- FEAT_PAuth (Pointer authentication)
+- FEAT_PMULL (PMULL, PMULL2 instructions)
+- FEAT_PMUv3p1 (PMU Extensions v3.1)
+- FEAT_PMUv3p4 (PMU Extensions v3.4)
+- FEAT_PMUv3p5 (PMU Extensions v3.5)
+- FEAT_RAS (Reliability, availability, and serviceability)
+- FEAT_RASv1p1 (RAS Extension v1.1)
+- FEAT_RDM (Advanced SIMD rounding double multiply accumulate instructions)
+- FEAT_RNG (Random number generator)
+- FEAT_S2FWB (Stage 2 forced Write-Back)
+- FEAT_SB (Speculation Barrier)
+- FEAT_SEL2 (Secure EL2)
+- FEAT_SHA1 (SHA1 instructions)
+- FEAT_SHA256 (SHA256 instructions)
+- FEAT_SHA3 (Advanced SIMD SHA3 instructions)
+- FEAT_SHA512 (Advanced SIMD SHA512 instructions)
+- FEAT_SM3 (Advanced SIMD SM3 instructions)
+- FEAT_SM4 (Advanced SIMD SM4 instructions)
+- FEAT_SME (Scalable Matrix Extension)
+- FEAT_SME_FA64 (Full A64 instruction set in Streaming SVE mode)
+- FEAT_SME_F64F64 (Double-precision floating-point outer product instructions)
+- FEAT_SME_I16I64 (16-bit to 64-bit integer widening outer product instructions)
+- FEAT_SPECRES (Speculation restriction instructions)
+- FEAT_SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe)
+- FEAT_TLBIOS (TLB invalidate instructions in Outer Shareable domain)
+- FEAT_TLBIRANGE (TLB invalidate range instructions)
+- FEAT_TTCNP (Translation table Common not private translations)
+- FEAT_TTL (Translation Table Level)
+- FEAT_TTST (Small translation tables)
+- FEAT_UAO (Unprivileged Access Override control)
+- FEAT_VHE (Virtualization Host Extensions)
+- FEAT_VMID16 (16-bit VMID)
+- FEAT_XNX (Translation table stage 2 Unprivileged Execute-never)
+- SVE (The Scalable Vector Extension)
+- SVE2 (The Scalable Vector Extension v2)
+
+For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
+to the `Armv8-A Arm Architecture Reference Manual
+<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest>`_.
+
+When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
+are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
+not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
+hardware should have it.) The ``max`` CPU enables all features.
+
+R-profile CPU architecture support
+==================================
+
+QEMU's TCG emulation support for R-profile CPUs is currently limited.
+We emulate only the Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R5F CPUs.
+
+M-profile CPU architecture support
+==================================
+
+QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for Armv6-M, Armv7-M, Armv8-M, and
+Armv8.1-M versions of the M-profile architucture. It also has support
+for the following architecture extensions:
+
+- FP (Floating-point Extension)
+- FPCXT (FPCXT access instructions)
+- HP (Half-precision floating-point instructions)
+- LOB (Low Overhead loops and Branch future)
+- M (Main Extension)
+- MPU (Memory Protection Unit Extension)
+- PXN (Privileged Execute Never)
+- RAS (Reliability, Serviceability and Availability): "minimum RAS Extension" only
+- S (Security Extension)
+- ST (System Timer Extension)
+
+For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
+to the `Armv8-M Arm Architecture Reference Manual
+<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0553/latest>`_.
+
+When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
+are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
+not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
+hardware should have it.) There is no equivalent of the ``max`` CPU for
+M-profile.