Ghidra: Is there any documentation for pspec and cspec files?

[quantumbracket]

[Escapingbug]

There are some refs at here. But I'm also kind of feeling confused here, as many fields are not documented..

[bdemick]

Completely agree. I'd love to see some more extensive documentation on all of the processor-related files. The SLEIGH docs are great, but could use some more practical examples in-line vs. having to stare at the sinc/slaspec files for other architectures, and parse through a very large source tree to get the answers. This works, and does help with understanding the overall structure of the project, but would be much quicker if there were just a tad bit more documentation and perhaps a step-by-step overview that covers an outline for the derivation of one of the simpler existing architectures.

[rkfg]

The docs are here, you'll need to xsltproc them to get a bunch of HTML files or a pdf. I had to install docbook-xsl to get the needed files for the conversion and I also changed the path in cspec_html.xsl. Then I ran xsltproc cspec_html.xsl cspec.xml.

[mumbel]

Thanks @rkfg
Not sure if i was just missing a package or not, but on Debian I had to modify cspec_html.xsl. Not sure if this change is correct, but it did produce html.

-<xsl:import href="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/chunk.xsl"/>
+<xsl:import href="/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl/html/chunk.xsl"/>

[rkfg]

Yep, I did the same (and mentioned it, though it was pretty vague I admit).

[bdemick]

Double thanks @rkfg !

On a Mac I had to just install docbook-xsl via brew and fix up the import path:

-<xsl:import href="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/chunk.xsl"/>
+<xsl:import href="/usr/local/Cellar/docbook-xsl/1.79.1/docbook-xsl/html/chunk.xsl"/>