Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary

[Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>]

On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 17:31 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> qemu-system-aarch64 is a proper superset of qemu-system-arm,
> and the latter was mainly still required for 32-bit KVM support.
> But this 32-bit KVM arm support has been dropped in the Linux
> kernel a couple of years ago already, so we don't really need
> qemu-system-arm anymore, thus deprecated it now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index a30aa8dfdf..21ce70b5c9 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ run 32-bit guests by selecting a 32-bit CPU model,
> including KVM support
>  on x86_64 hosts. Thus users are recommended to reconfigure their
> systems
>  to use the ``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary instead.
>  
> +``qemu-system-arm`` binary (since 8.0)
> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +``qemu-system-aarch64`` is a proper superset of ``qemu-system-arm``.
> The
> +latter was mainly a requirement for running KVM on 32-bit arm hosts,
> but
> +this 32-bit KVM support has been removed some years ago already
> (see:
> +
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/com
> mit/?id=541ad0150ca4
> +). Thus the QEMU project will drop the ``qemu-system-arm`` binary in
> a
> +future release. Use ``qemu-system-aarch64`` instead.
> +
>  
>  System emulator command line arguments
>  --------------------------------------