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| Developer Information |
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| This section of the manual documents various parts of the internals of |
| QEMU. You only need to read it if you are interested in reading or |
| modifying QEMU's source code. |
| |
| QEMU is a large and mature project with a number of complex subsystems |
| that can be overwhelming to understand. The development documentation |
| is not comprehensive but hopefully presents enough to get you started. |
| If there are areas that are unclear please reach out either via the |
| IRC channel or mailing list and hopefully we can improve the |
| documentation for future developers. |
| |
| All developers will want to familiarise themselves with |
| :ref:`development_process` and how the community interacts. Please pay |
| particular attention to the :ref:`coding-style` and |
| :ref:`submitting-a-patch` sections to avoid common pitfalls. |
| |
| If you wish to implement a new hardware model you will want to read |
| through the :ref:`qom` documentation to understand how QEMU's object |
| model works. |
| |
| Those wishing to enhance or add new CPU emulation capabilities will |
| want to read our :ref:`tcg` documentation, especially the overview of |
| the :ref:`tcg_internals`. |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
| |
| index-process |
| index-build |
| testing/index |
| index-api |
| index-internals |
| index-tcg |
| codebase |
