[PATCH 21/26] docs/devel: add some front matter to the devel index

[Alex Bennée]

Give an overview of the most useful bits of the devel documentation to
read depending on what the developer wants to do.

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230619171437.357374-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

---
v2
  - removed excessive start
---
 docs/devel/index-process.rst |  2 ++
 docs/devel/index-tcg.rst     |  2 ++
 docs/devel/index.rst         | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 docs/devel/tcg.rst           |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/devel/index-process.rst b/docs/devel/index-process.rst
index d50dd74c3e..362f97ee30 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index-process.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index-process.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _development_process:
+
 QEMU Community Processes
 ------------------------
 
diff --git a/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst b/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst
index b44ff8b5a4..a992844e5c 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index-tcg.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _tcg:
+
 TCG Emulation
 -------------
 
diff --git a/docs/devel/index.rst b/docs/devel/index.rst
index 09cfb322be..abf60457c2 100644
--- a/docs/devel/index.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/index.rst
@@ -2,10 +2,30 @@
 Developer Information
 ---------------------
 
-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
+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
 
diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg.rst b/docs/devel/tcg.rst
index b4096a17df..2786f2f679 100644
--- a/docs/devel/tcg.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/tcg.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.. _tcg_internals:
+
 ====================
 Translator Internals
 ====================
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