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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 5/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts
Date: Thu,  2 Mar 2023 17:31:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230302163106.465559-6-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230302163106.465559-1-thuth@redhat.com>

For running QEMU in system emulation mode, the user needs a rather
strong host system, i.e. not only an embedded low-frequency controller.
All recent beefy arm host machines should support 64-bit now, it's
unlikely that anybody is still seriously using QEMU on a 32-bit arm
CPU, so we deprecate the 32-bit arm hosts here to finally save use
some time and precious CI minutes.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 21ce70b5c9..c7113a7510 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -229,6 +229,15 @@ discontinue it. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years
 is capable of the 64-bit x86 extensions, a corresponding 64-bit OS
 should be used instead.
 
+System emulation on 32-bit arm hosts (since 8.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Since QEMU needs a strong host machine for running full system emulation, and
+all recent powerful arm hosts support 64-bit, the QEMU project deprecates the
+support for running any system emulation on 32-bit arm hosts in general. Use
+64-bit arm hosts for system emulation instead. (Note: "user" mode emulation
+continuous to be supported on 32-bit arm hosts, too)
+
 
 QEMU API (QAPI) events
 ----------------------
-- 
2.31.1



  parent 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 [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts Thomas Huth
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 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2023-03-02 18:09   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts 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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