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RISC-V Open Source Supervisor Binary Interface (OpenSBI)
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========================================================
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The **RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI)** is a recommended
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interface between:
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The **RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI)** is a recommended interface
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between:
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1. A platform specific firmware (M-mode) and a general purpose
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OS or hypervisor or bootloader (S-mode or HS-mode).
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2. A hypervisor (HS-mode) and a general purpose OS or bootloader (VS-mode)
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1. A platform specific firmware running in M-mode and a general purpose OS,
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hypervisor or bootloader running in S-mode or HS-mode.
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2. A hypervisor running in HS-mode and a general purpose OS or bootloader
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executed in VS-mode.
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The *RISC-V SBI specification* is maintained as an independent project
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by the RISC-V Foundation in [Github](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc)
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The *RISC-V SBI specification* is maintained as an independent project by the
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RISC-V Foundation in [Github].
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OpenSBI aims to provides an open-source and extensible implementation of
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the RISC-V SBI specification for case 1 mentioned above. OpenSBI
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implementation can be easily extended by RISC-V platform or System-on-Chip
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vendors to fit a particular hardware configuration.
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OpenSBI provides three components:
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OpenSBI aims to provides an open-source and extensible implementation of the
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RISC-V SBI specification for case 1 mentioned above. OpenSBI implementation
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can be easily extended by RISC-V platform or System-on-Chip vendors to fit a
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particular hardware configuration.
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OpenSBI provides three different components:
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1. *libsbi.a* - A generic OpenSBI static library
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2. *libplatsbi.a* - Platform specific OpenSBI static library, that is,
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2. *libplatsbi.a* - A platform specific OpenSBI static library, that is,
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libsbi.a plus platform specific hooks
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3. *firmwares* - Platform specific bootable firmware binaries
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Building and Installing generic *libsbi.a*
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------------------------------------------
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Building and Installing the generic OpenSBI static library
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----------------------------------------------------------
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For cross-compiling, the environment variable *CROSS_COMPILE* must
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be defined to specify the toolchain executable name prefix, e.g.
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*riscv64-unknown-elf-* if the gcc executable used is
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*riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc*.
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*libsbi.a* can be natively compiled or cross-compiled on a host with a
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different base architecture than RISC-V.
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For cross-compiling, the environment variable *CROSS_COMPILE* must be defined
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to specify the name prefix of the RISC-V compiler toolchain executables, e.g.
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*riscv64-unknown-elf-* if the gcc executable used is *riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc*.
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To build the generic OpenSBI library *libsbi.a*, simply execute:
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```
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make
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```
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All compiled binaries will be placed in the *build* directory.
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To specify an alternate build directory target, run:
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All compiled binaries as well as the result *libsbi.a* static library file will
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be placed in the *build/lib* directory. To specify an alternate build root
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directory path, run:
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```
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make O=<build_directory>
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```
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To generate files to be installed for using *libsbi.a* in other projects,
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run:
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To generate files to be installed for using *libsbi.a* in other projects, run:
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```
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make install
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```
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This will create the *install* directory with all necessary include files
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and binary files under it. To specify an alternate installation directory,
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run:
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copied under the *install/include* directory and library file copied in the
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*install/lib* directory. To specify an alternate installation root directory
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path, run:
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```
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make I=<install_directory> install
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```
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Building and Installing platform specific *libsbi.a* and firmwares
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------------------------------------------------------------------
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Building and Installing the platform specific static library and firmwares
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The libplatsbi.a and firmware files are only built if the
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*`PLATFORM=<platform_subdir>`* argument is specified on make command lines.
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*`<platform_subdir>`* must specify the path to one of the leaf directories
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under the *`platform`* directory. For example, to compile the library and
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firmware for QEMU RISC-V *virt* machine, *`<platform_subdir>`*
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should be *`qemu/virt`*.
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The platform specific *libplatsbi.a* static library and the platform firmwares
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are only built if the *PLATFORM=<platform_subdir>* argument is specified on
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the make command line. *<platform_subdir>* must specify the relative path from
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OpenSBI code directory to one of the leaf directories under the *platform*
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directory. For example, to compile the platform library and firmwares for QEMU
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RISC-V *virt* machine, *<platform_subdir>* should be *qemu/virt*.
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To build *libsbi, libplatsbi, and firmwares* for a specific platform, run:
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To build *libsbi.a*, *libplatsbi.a* and the firmwares for a specific platform,
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run:
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```
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make PLATFORM=<platform_subdir>
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or
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```
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An alternate build directory path can also be specified.
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```
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make PLATFORM=<platform_subdir> O=<build_directory>
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```
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To install *libsbi, headers, libplatsbi, and firmwares*, run:
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The platform specific library *libplatsbi.a* will be generated in the
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*build/platform/<platform_sub_dir>/lib* directory. The platform firmware files
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will be under the *build/platform/<platform_sub_dir>/firmware* directory.
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The compiled firmwares will be available in two different format: an ELF file
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and an expanded image file.
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To install *libsbi.a*, *libplatsbi.a*, and the compiled firmwares, run:
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```
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make PLATFORM=<platform_subdir> install
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or
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```
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This will copy the compiled platform specific libraries and firmware files
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under the *install/platform/<platform_sub_dir>/* directory. An alternate
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install root directory path can be specified as follows.
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```
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make PLATFORM=<platform_subdir> I=<install_directory> install
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```
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In addition, platform specific make command-line options to top-level make
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, such as *PLATFORM_<xyz>* or *FW_<abc>* can also be specified. These
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options are described under *`docs/platform/<platform_name>.md`* and
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*`docs/firmware/<firmware_name>.md`*.
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In addition, platform specific configuration options can be specified with the
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top-level make command line. These options, such as *PLATFORM_<xyz>* or
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*FW_<abc>*, are platform specific and described in more details in the
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*docs/platform/<platform_name>.md* files and
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*docs/firmware/<firmware_name>.md* files.
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License
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-------------
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The software is provided under a BSD-2-Clause license. Contributions to this
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project are accepted under the same license with developer sign-off as
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described in the [Contributing Guidelines](docs/contributing.md).
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-------
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This project also contains code from other projects as listed below. The original
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license text is included in those source files.
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OpenSBI is distributed under the terms of the BSD 2-clause license
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("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License", SPDX: *BSD-2-Clause*).
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A copy of this license with OpenSBI copyright can be found in the file
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[COPYING.BSD].
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1. The libfdt source code is disjunctively dual licensed (GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause). It is
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used by this project under the terms of the BSD-2-Clause license. Any contributions to
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this code must be made under the terms of both licenses.
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All source files in OpenSBI contain the 2-Clause BSD license SPDX short
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indentifier in place of the full license text.
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```
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SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
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```
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This enables machine processing of license information based on the SPDX
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License Identifiers that are available on the [SPDX] web site.
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OpenSBI source code also contains code reused from other projects as listed
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below. The original license text of these projects is included in the source
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files where the reused code is present.
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1. The libfdt source code is disjunctively dual licensed
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(GPL-2.0+ OR BSD-2-Clause). Some of this project code is used in OpenSBI
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under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause license. Any contributions to this
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code must be made under the terms of both licenses.
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Contributing to OpenSBI
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-----------------------
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The OpenSBI project encourages and welcomes contributions. Contributions should
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follow the rules described in OpenSBI [Contribution Guideline] document.
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In particular, all patches sent should contain a Signed-off-by tag.
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Documentation
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-------------
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A more detailed documentation is under the *docs* directory and organized
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as follows.
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Detailed documentation of various aspects of OpenSBI can be found under the
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*docs* directory. The documentation covers the following topics.
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* *`docs/contributing.md`* - Guidelines for contributing to OpenSBI project
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* *`docs/platform_guide.md`* - Guidelines for adding new platform support
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* *`docs/library_usage.md`* - Guidelines for using the static library
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* *`docs/platform/<platform_name>.md`* - Documentation for the platform *<platform_name>*
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* *`docs/firmware/<firmware_name>.md`* - Documentation for the firmware *<firmware_name>*
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* [Contribution Guideline]: Guideline for contributing code to OpenSBI project
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* [Platform Support Guide]: Guideline for implementing support for new platforms
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* [Library Usage]: API documentation of OpenSBI static library *libsbi.a*
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* [Platform Documentation]: Documentation of the platforms currently supported.
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* [Firmware Documentation]: Documentation for the different types of firmware
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build supported by OpenSBI.
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The source code is also well documented. For source level documentation,
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OpenSBI source code is also well documented. For source level documentation,
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doxygen style is used. Please refer to [Doxygen manual] for details on this
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format.
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[Doxygen manual]: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual.html
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The Doxygen can be installed on your debian build system using following:
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Doxygen can be installed on Linux distributions using *.deb* packages using
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the following command.
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```
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sudo apt-get install doxygen doxygen-latex doxygen-doc doxygen-gui graphviz
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```
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To build a consolidated `refman.pdf` of all documentation, run:
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For *.rpm* based Linux distributions, the following commands can be used.
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```
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sudo yum install doxygen doxygen-latex doxywizard graphviz
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```
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or
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```
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sudo yum install doxygen doxygen-latex doxywizard graphviz
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```
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To build a consolidated *refman.pdf* of all documentation, run:
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```
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make docs
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```
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or
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```
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make O=<build_directory> docs
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```
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**NOTE:** `refman.pdf` will be available under `<build_directory>/docs/latex`.
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To install a consolidated `refman.pdf` of all documentation, run:
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the resulting *refman.pdf* will be available under the directory
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*<build_directory>/docs/latex*. To install this file, run:
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```
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make install_docs
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```
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or
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```
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make I=<install_directory> install_docs
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```
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**NOTE:** `refman.pdf` will be installed under `<install_directory>/docs`.
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*refman.pdf* will be installed under *<install_directory>/docs*.
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[Github]: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc
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[COPYING.BSD]: COPYING.BSD
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[SPDX]: http://spdx.org/licenses/
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[Contribution Guideline]: docs/contributing.md
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[Platform Support Guide]: docs/platform_guide.md
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[Library Usage]: docs/library_usage.md
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[Platform Documentation]: docs/platform/platform.md
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[Firmware Documentation]: docs/firmware/fw.md
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[Doxygen manual]: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual.html
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