Documentation/ISAManuals

Instruction Set Manuals

Some pointers for the various ISAs that QEMU supports (either as target or as host).

• Wikibooks (Various languages)

Alpha

• Alpha (look for the "Alpha Architecture Handbook")

ARM

• List of A-profile related documentation
• List of M-profile related documentation
• The most significant document is the v8A ARM ARM

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Blackfin

• Blackfin

HPPA (PA-RISC)

• PA-RISC 1.1 (32bit) Instruction Set Architecture
• PA-RISC 2.0 (64bit) Instruction Set Architecture

LatticeMico32

• LatticeMico32

m68k

• M68k Programmer's Reference Manual
• ColdFire Programmer's Reference Manual

MIPS

• MIPS32 and MIPS64

PowerPC

• PowerPC 2.02
• PowerISA 2.07 (POWER8)
• PowerISA 3.0 (POWER9)

S390x (zSeries)

• z/Architecture Principles of Operation (Third edition, 2003)
• z/Architecture Principles of Operation (Fourth edition, 2004)
• z/Architecture Principles of Operation (Tenth edition, 2012)
• z/Architecture Reference Summary (Ninth edition, 2015)
• s370 Interpretive Execution

SPARC

• SPARC v8 and v9

TriCore

• TriCore v1.3 & v1.3.1
• TriCore v1.6
• TriCore v1.6.2

x86

• AMD
• Intel

Xtensa

• Base Xtensa ISA