Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST

This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst
similarity index 93%
rename from Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt
rename to Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst
index 15f5baf7e1b681591ff198493c2a198f4371c495..ce4d8df15e7c02adfdfea1521b19b8b7e6ddef4b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+=======
+IO-APIC
+=======
+
+:Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
+
 Most (all) Intel-MP compliant SMP boards have the so-called 'IO-APIC',
 which is an enhanced interrupt controller. It enables us to route
 hardware interrupts to multiple CPUs, or to CPU groups. Without an
@@ -13,9 +21,8 @@ usually worked around by the kernel. If your MP-compliant SMP board does
 not boot Linux, then consult the linux-smp mailing list archives first.
 
 If your box boots fine with enabled IO-APIC IRQs, then your
-/proc/interrupts will look like this one:
+/proc/interrupts will look like this one::
 
-   ---------------------------->
   hell:~> cat /proc/interrupts
              CPU0
     0:    1360293    IO-APIC-edge  timer
@@ -28,7 +35,6 @@ If your box boots fine with enabled IO-APIC IRQs, then your
   NMI:          0
   ERR:          0
   hell:~>
-  <----------------------------
 
 Some interrupts are still listed as 'XT PIC', but this is not a problem;
 none of those IRQ sources is performance-critical.
@@ -37,14 +43,14 @@ none of those IRQ sources is performance-critical.
 In the unlikely case that your board does not create a working mp-table,
 you can use the pirq= boot parameter to 'hand-construct' IRQ entries. This
 is non-trivial though and cannot be automated. One sample /etc/lilo.conf
-entry:
+entry::
 
        append="pirq=15,11,10"
 
 The actual numbers depend on your system, on your PCI cards and on their
 PCI slot position. Usually PCI slots are 'daisy chained' before they are
 connected to the PCI chipset IRQ routing facility (the incoming PIRQ1-4
-lines):
+lines)::
 
                ,-.        ,-.        ,-.        ,-.        ,-.
      PIRQ4 ----| |-.    ,-| |-.    ,-| |-.    ,-| |--------| |
@@ -56,7 +62,7 @@ lines):
      PIRQ1 ----| |-  `----| |-  `----| |-  `----| |--------| |
                `-'        `-'        `-'        `-'        `-'
 
-Every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which can be INTA, INTB, INTC or INTD:
+Every PCI card emits a PCI IRQ, which can be INTA, INTB, INTC or INTD::
 
                                ,-.
                          INTD--| |
@@ -78,19 +84,19 @@ to have non shared interrupts). Slot5 should be used for videocards, they
 do not use interrupts normally, thus they are not daisy chained either.
 
 so if you have your SCSI card (IRQ11) in Slot1, Tulip card (IRQ9) in
-Slot2, then you'll have to specify this pirq= line:
+Slot2, then you'll have to specify this pirq= line::
 
        append="pirq=11,9"
 
 the following script tries to figure out such a default pirq= line from
-your PCI configuration:
+your PCI configuration::
 
        echo -n pirq=; echo `scanpci | grep T_L | cut -c56-` | sed 's/ /,/g'
 
 note that this script won't work if you have skipped a few slots or if your
 board does not do default daisy-chaining. (or the IO-APIC has the PIRQ pins
 connected in some strange way). E.g. if in the above case you have your SCSI
-card (IRQ11) in Slot3, and have Slot1 empty:
+card (IRQ11) in Slot3, and have Slot1 empty::
 
        append="pirq=0,9,11"
 
@@ -105,7 +111,7 @@ won't function properly (e.g. if it's inserted as a module).
 If you have 2 PCI buses, then you can use up to 8 pirq values, although such
 boards tend to have a good configuration.
 
-Be prepared that it might happen that you need some strange pirq line:
+Be prepared that it might happen that you need some strange pirq line::
 
        append="pirq=0,0,0,0,0,0,9,11"
 
@@ -115,5 +121,3 @@ Good luck and mail to linux-smp@vger.kernel.org or
 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org if you have any problems that are not covered
 by this document.
 
--- mingo
-

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..8747cf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+============
+i386 Support
+============
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   IO-APIC

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
index 3eb0334ae2d452244bc13f34ea2cb54609819400..4e15bcc6456ced5445acf0b185294fd40ac77bc7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst
@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ x86-specific Documentation
    microcode
    resctrl_ui
    usb-legacy-support
+   i386/index