docs: mic: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

Convert Intel Many Integrated Core architecture docs to ReST.

The conversion is trivial: just add title and literal block
markups, and adjust some identation.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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+======================================================
+Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture overview
+======================================================
+
+An Intel MIC X100 device is a PCIe form factor add-in coprocessor
+card based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture
+that runs a Linux OS. It is a PCIe endpoint in a platform and therefore
+implements the three required standard address spaces i.e. configuration,
+memory and I/O. The host OS loads a device driver as is typical for
+PCIe devices. The card itself runs a bootstrap after reset that
+transfers control to the card OS downloaded from the host driver. The
+host driver supports OSPM suspend and resume operations. It shuts down
+the card during suspend and reboots the card OS during resume.
+The card OS as shipped by Intel is a Linux kernel with modifications
+for the X100 devices.
+
+Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
+devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
+on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent
+environment for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it
+leverages the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console
+devices, though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe
+bus. A Virtio Over PCIe (VOP) driver allows creating user space
+backends or devices on the host which are used to probe virtio drivers
+for these devices on the MIC card. The existing VRINGH infrastructure
+in the kernel is used to access virtio rings from the host. The card
+VOP driver allows card virtio drivers to communicate with their user
+space backends on the host via a device page. Ring 3 apps on the host
+can add, remove and configure virtio devices. A thin MIC specific
+virtio_config_ops is implemented which is borrowed heavily from
+previous similar implementations in lguest and s390.
+
+MIC PCIe card has a dma controller with 8 channels. These channels are
+shared between the host s/w and the card s/w. 0 to 3 are used by host
+and 4 to 7 by card. As the dma device doesn't show up as PCIe device,
+a virtual bus called mic bus is created and virtual dma devices are
+created on it by the host/card drivers. On host the channels are private
+and used only by the host driver to transfer data for the virtio devices.
+
+The Symmetric Communication Interface (SCIF (pronounced as skiff)) is a
+low level communications API across PCIe currently implemented for MIC.
+More details are available at scif_overview.txt.
+
+The Coprocessor State Management (COSM) driver on the host allows for
+boot, shutdown and reset of Intel MIC devices. It communicates with a COSM
+"client" driver on the MIC cards over SCIF to perform these functions.
+
+Here is a block diagram of the various components described above. The
+virtio backends are situated on the host rather than the card given better
+single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC, the ability of
+the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine and
+the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host::
+
+               +----------+           |             +----------+
+               | Card OS  |           |             | Host OS  |
+               +----------+           |             +----------+
+                                      |
+        +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+  +--------+ +--------+
+        | Virtio| |Virtio  | |Virtio| | |Virtio   |  |Virtio  | |Virtio  |
+        | Net   | |Console | |Block | | |Net      |  |Console | |Block   |
+        | Driver| |Driver  | |Driver| | |backend  |  |backend | |backend |
+        +---+---+ +---+----+ +--+---+ | +---------+  +----+---+ +--------+
+            |         |         |     |      |            |         |
+            |         |         |     |User  |            |         |
+            |         |         |     |------|------------|--+------|-------
+            +---------+---------+     |Kernel                |
+                      |               |                      |
+  +---------+     +---+----+ +------+ | +------+ +------+ +--+---+  +-------+
+  |MIC DMA  |     |  VOP   | | SCIF | | | SCIF | | COSM | | VOP  |  |MIC DMA|
+  +---+-----+     +---+----+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ +------+  +----+--+
+      |               |         |     |    |        |                    |
+  +---+-----+     +---+----+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ +------+  +----+--+
+  |MIC      |     |  VOP   | |SCIF  | | |SCIF  | | COSM | | VOP  |  | MIC   |
+  |HW Bus   |     |  HW Bus| |HW Bus| | |HW Bus| | Bus  | |HW Bus|  |HW Bus |
+  +---------+     +--------+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +------+ +------+  +-------+
+      |               |         |     |       |     |                    |
+      |   +-----------+--+      |     |       |    +---------------+     |
+      |   |Intel MIC     |      |     |       |    |Intel MIC      |     |
+      |   |Card Driver   |      |     |       |    |Host Driver    |     |
+      +---+--------------+------+     |       +----+---------------+-----+
+                 |                    |                   |
+             +-------------------------------------------------------------+
+             |                                                             |
+             |                    PCIe Bus                                 |
+             +-------------------------------------------------------------+