From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Maxim Levitsky" <mlevitsk@redhat.com>,
libvir-list@redhat.com,
"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
"Reinoud Zandijk" <reinoud@netbsd.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 17:31:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230302163106.465559-1-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared
gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of ways to cut down
our supported build and target environments. qemu-system-i386 and
qemu-system-arm are not really required anymore, since nobody uses
KVM on the corresponding systems for production anymore, and the
-x86_64 and -arch64 variants are a proper superset of those binaries.
So it's time to deprecate them and the corresponding 32-bit host
environments now.
This is a follow-up patch series from the previous discussion here:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230130114428.1297295-1-thuth@redhat.com/
where people still mentioned that there is still interest in certain
support for 32-bit host hardware. But as far as I could see, there is
no real need for 32-bit x86 host support and for system emulation on
32-bit arm hosts anymore, so it should be fine if we drop these host
environments soon (these are also the two architectures that contribute
the most to the long test times in our CI, so we would benefit a lot by
dropping those).
v2:
- Split binary and host deprecation into separate patches
- Added patches to immediately drop the jobs from the CI
Thomas Huth (6):
docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary
docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts
gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the i386 jobs
docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary
docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts
gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the 32-bit arm system emulation jobs
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml | 30 -------------------------
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
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2.31.1
next reply other threads:[~2023-03-02 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-02 16:31 Thomas Huth [this message]
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:05 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03 0:49 ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:05 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03 0:52 ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the i386 jobs Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:07 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03 0:53 ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:07 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 22:16 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-03-03 7:36 ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03 0:55 ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-03 11:16 ` Peter Maydell
2023-03-03 11:31 ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03 11:39 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:09 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03 0:57 ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the 32-bit arm system emulation jobs Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:10 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 21:58 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-03-03 0:57 ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 22:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-03-03 9:48 ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03 11:09 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-03-03 11:22 ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03 11:57 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-03-03 11:24 ` Peter Maydell
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