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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>
2022-10-03Documentation: document the new smbus console featureHusni Faiz
This explains how to enable the SMBus console in coreboot and its Kconfigs. Change-Id: I50cafbbaaea133c9ea50131e455151287c96176a Signed-off-by: Husni Faiz <ahamedhusni73@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/67386 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <inforichland@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
2021-05-28Documentation: Fix up toctreePatrick Georgi
Some files weren't properly hooked up, making Sphinx complain. Change-Id: If959fa63d4ddbc3916c49c5ad6602e76b12a7e60 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/55020 Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@mailbox.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Niewöhner <foss@mniewoehner.de> Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
2020-09-21Documentation: Add ASan documentationHarshit Sharma
Change-Id: I710ea495798597189941620c7e48fd5aa7476781 Signed-off-by: Harshit Sharma <harshitsharmajs@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/44814 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Werner Zeh <werner.zeh@siemens.com> Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
2020-05-01Documentation: Add proposal for firmware unit testingJan Dabros
Signed-off-by: Jan Dabros <jsd@semihalf.com> Change-Id: I552d6c3373219978b8e5fd4304f993d920425431 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39893 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Fagerburg <pfagerburg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
2019-10-23Documentation: Add a technote sectionArthur Heymans
Change-Id: I8676f89399a0def3409f19dc92e4f65924d0ba22 Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36200 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org> Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>