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2024-03-21Docs: Replace Recommonmark with MyST ParserNicholas Chin
Recommonmark has been deprecated since 2021 [1] and the last release was over 3 years ago [2]. As per their announcement, Markedly Structured Text (MyST) Parser [3] is the recommended replacement. For the most part, the existing documentation is compatible with MyST, as both parsers are built around the CommonMark flavor of Markdown. The main difference that affects coreboot is how the Sphinx toctree is generated. Recommonmark has a feature called auto_toc_tree, which converts single level lists of references into a toctree: * [Part 1: Starting from scratch](part1.md) * [Part 2: Submitting a patch to coreboot.org](part2.md) * [Part 3: Writing unit tests](part3.md) * [Managing local additions](managing_local_additions.md) * [Flashing firmware](flashing_firmware/index.md) MyST Parser does not provide a replacement for this feature, meaning the toctree must be defined manually. This is done using MyST's syntax for Sphinx directives: ```{toctree} :maxdepth: 1 Part 1: Starting from scratch <part1.md> Part 2: Submitting a patch to coreboot.org <part2.md> Part 3: Writing unit tests <part3.md> Managing local additions <managing_local_additions.md> Flashing firmware <flashing_firmware/index.md> ``` Internally, auto_toc_tree essentially converts lists of references into the Sphinx toctree structure that the MyST syntax above more directly represents. The toctrees were converted to the MyST syntax using the following command and Python script: `find ./ -iname "*.md" | xargs -n 1 python conv_toctree.py` ``` import re import sys in_list = False f = open(sys.argv[1]) lines = f.readlines() f.close() with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as f: for line in lines: match = re.match(r"^[-*+] \[(.*)\]\((.*)\)$", line) if match is not None: if not in_list: in_list = True f.write("```{toctree}\n") f.write(":maxdepth: 1\n\n") f.write(match.group(1) + " <" + match.group(2) + ">\n") else: if in_list: f.write("```\n") f.write(line) in_list = False if in_list: f.write("```\n") ``` While this does add a little more work for creating the toctree, this does give more control over exactly what goes into the toctree. For instance, lists of links to external resources currently end up in the toctree, but we may want to limit it to pages within coreboot. This change does break rendering and navigation of the documentation in applications that can render Markdown, such as Okular, Gitiles, or the GitHub mirror. Assuming the docs are mainly intended to be viewed after being rendered to doc.coreboot.org, this is probably not an issue in practice. Another difference is that MyST natively supports Markdown tables, whereas with Recommonmark, tables had to be written in embedded rST [4]. However, MyST also supports embedded rST, so the existing tables can be easily converted as the syntax is nearly identical. These were converted using `find ./ -iname "*.md" | xargs -n 1 sed -i "s/eval_rst/{eval-rst}/"` Makefile.sphinx and conf.py were regenerated from scratch by running `sphinx-quickstart` using the updated version of Sphinx, which removes a lot of old commented out boilerplate. Any relevant changes coreboot had made on top of the previous autogenerated versions of these files were ported over to the newly generated file. From some initial testing the generated webpages appear and function identically to the existing documentation built with Recommonmark. TEST: `make -C util/docker docker-build-docs` builds the documentation successfully and the generated output renders properly when viewed in a web browser. [1] https://github.com/readthedocs/recommonmark/issues/221 [2] https://pypi.org/project/recommonmark/ [3] https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [4] https://doc.coreboot.org/getting_started/writing_documentation.html Change-Id: I0837c1722fa56d25c9441ea218e943d8f3d9b804 Signed-off-by: Nicholas Chin <nic.c3.14@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/73158 Reviewed-by: Matt DeVillier <matt.devillier@gmail.com> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
2023-06-06Docs: Update the 4.19 release notes to match the server versionMartin Roth
The version of the 4.19 release notes on the server was updated with signatures and a note explaining the new tarballs vs the original, corrupted tarballs. That data didn't make it back to the version of the release notes in the documentation. Likewise, the updates in the documentation didn't get pushed to the release directory on the website. The website now has this version of the release notes that combines the two. This patch does the same for the documentation folder. Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com> Change-Id: Ib2563e7fa4b8d82ad4fbb3fd3880ee62a24a8aca Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/75639 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Eric Lai <eric_lai@quanta.corp-partner.google.com> Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <service+coreboot-gerrit@felixsinger.de>
2023-02-01Documentation: Fix broken tablesNicholas Chin
- The 4.19 release notes included a list of outstanding issues formatted as a markdown table, which is not supported by Recommonmark. Reformat as an embedded reStructuredText table. - The table of boards supported on the 4.18 branch did not include row separators causing all rows to be rendered in a single row of cells. - Technotes/console.md had a typo in the rST table formatting which generated warnings in the Sphinx build, causing the table to not be rendered in the resulting html. Change-Id: I86e2c5d6d20e6002b87efc4688fc11b24b341227 Signed-off-by: Nicholas Chin <nic.c3.14@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/72623 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>
2023-01-27Updated the 4.19 release notes post-releaseMartin Roth
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com> Change-Id: I2628d7b25d3fb7467772cb859cb7c8c7865e323c Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/72480 Reviewed-by: Jason Glenesk <jason.glenesk@amd.corp-partner.google.com> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Elyes Haouas <ehaouas@noos.fr> Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>
2023-01-17Documentation/releases: Finalize the 4.19 release notesMartin Roth
These are the final 4.19 release notes before tagging the release. Final updates to statistics and removal of comments saying "planned" and "Upcoming" will be removed after the release is tagged. Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com> Change-Id: Ie20ad22732ce2e1d92e47b8e48268c6a5a34ca5b Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/71942 Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
2023-01-15docs/releases/4.19: Add note about ASL 2.0 conversionFelix Singer
Change-Id: I30d827043e3eb3bf21551b1cb6c0b4c369a70083 Signed-off-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/71713 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Jason Glenesk <jason.glenesk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
2023-01-15docs/releases/4.19: Add toolchain updatesElyes Haouas
Change-Id: If8c3f8e18ccbec8770917cc97aa562eac7417aaf Signed-off-by: Elyes Haouas <ehaouas@noos.fr> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/71178 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Jason Glenesk <jason.glenesk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
2023-01-15Documentation/releases: Start getting ready for the 4.19 releaseMartin Roth
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com> Change-Id: I3edbf3ebc74ebae5896196b43dd5be014f27a0ec Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/71590 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Jason Glenesk <jason.glenesk@gmail.com>
2022-10-16Docs/releases: Add 4.19 relnotes template and update indexMartin Roth
The 4.19 release is planned for January 2023. Please add any updates to the coreboot code that are should go into the notes between now and then. This helps in that you get to phrase the update the way you want, and it lessens the load for the release managers. Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martin.roth@amd.corp-partner.google.com> Change-Id: Ib5a7ddfc6cb1a8e0a485c1e1810631c86f4083c3 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/68459 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>