From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, "Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>, qemu-discuss@nongnu.org, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, qemu-arm@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnnu.org, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Subject: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:30:13 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20190925233013.6449-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw) The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting quite rare in developers personal menageries. For TCG supporting newer types like Int128 is a lot harder with 32 bit calling conventions compared to their larger bit sized cousins. Fundamentally address space is the most useful thing for the translator to have even for a 32 bit guest a 32 bit host is quite constrained. As far as I'm aware 32 bit KVM users are even less numerous. Even ILP32 doesn't make much sense given the address space QEMU needs to manage. Lets mark these machines as deprecated so we can have the wailing and gnashing of teeth now and look to actually dropping the support in a couple of cycles. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> --- configure | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 542f6aea3f..776fd460b5 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ ARCH= # Normalise host CPU name and set ARCH. # Note that this case should only have supported host CPUs, not guests. case "$cpu" in - ppc|ppc64|s390|s390x|sparc64|x32|riscv32|riscv64) + ppc64|s390|s390x|sparc64|riscv64) supported_cpu="yes" ;; ppc64le) @@ -737,7 +737,6 @@ case "$cpu" in ;; i386|i486|i586|i686|i86pc|BePC) cpu="i386" - supported_cpu="yes" ;; x86_64|amd64) cpu="x86_64" @@ -745,19 +744,22 @@ case "$cpu" in ;; armv*b|armv*l|arm) cpu="arm" - supported_cpu="yes" ;; aarch64) cpu="aarch64" supported_cpu="yes" ;; - mips*) + mips64*) cpu="mips" supported_cpu="yes" ;; + mips*) + cpu="mips" + ;; sparc|sun4[cdmuv]) cpu="sparc" - supported_cpu="yes" + ;; + x32|riscv32) ;; *) # This will result in either an error or falling back to TCI later @@ -6438,12 +6440,12 @@ if test "$supported_cpu" = "no"; then echo "WARNING: SUPPORT FOR THIS HOST CPU WILL GO AWAY IN FUTURE RELEASES!" echo echo "CPU host architecture $cpu support is not currently maintained." - echo "The QEMU project intends to remove support for this host CPU in" - echo "a future release if nobody volunteers to maintain it and to" - echo "provide a build host for our continuous integration setup." - echo "configure has succeeded and you can continue to build, but" - echo "if you care about QEMU on this platform you should contact" - echo "us upstream at qemu-devel@nongnu.org." + echo "The QEMU project intends to remove support for all 32 bit host" + echo "CPUs in a future release. 64 bit hosts will need a volunteer" + echo "to maintain it and to provide a build host for our continuous" + echo "integration setup. configure has succeeded and you can continue" + echo "to build, but if you care about QEMU on this platform you" + echo "should contact us upstream at qemu-devel@nongnu.org." fi if test "$supported_os" = "no"; then -- 2.20.1
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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnnu.org, qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, qemu-discuss@nongnu.org, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, "Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Subject: [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:30:13 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20190925233013.6449-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw) The 32 bit hosts are already a second class citizen especially with support for running 64 bit guests under TCG. We are also limited by testing as actual working 32 bit machines are getting quite rare in developers personal menageries. For TCG supporting newer types like Int128 is a lot harder with 32 bit calling conventions compared to their larger bit sized cousins. Fundamentally address space is the most useful thing for the translator to have even for a 32 bit guest a 32 bit host is quite constrained. As far as I'm aware 32 bit KVM users are even less numerous. Even ILP32 doesn't make much sense given the address space QEMU needs to manage. Lets mark these machines as deprecated so we can have the wailing and gnashing of teeth now and look to actually dropping the support in a couple of cycles. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> --- configure | 24 +++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 542f6aea3f..776fd460b5 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ ARCH= # Normalise host CPU name and set ARCH. # Note that this case should only have supported host CPUs, not guests. case "$cpu" in - ppc|ppc64|s390|s390x|sparc64|x32|riscv32|riscv64) + ppc64|s390|s390x|sparc64|riscv64) supported_cpu="yes" ;; ppc64le) @@ -737,7 +737,6 @@ case "$cpu" in ;; i386|i486|i586|i686|i86pc|BePC) cpu="i386" - supported_cpu="yes" ;; x86_64|amd64) cpu="x86_64" @@ -745,19 +744,22 @@ case "$cpu" in ;; armv*b|armv*l|arm) cpu="arm" - supported_cpu="yes" ;; aarch64) cpu="aarch64" supported_cpu="yes" ;; - mips*) + mips64*) cpu="mips" supported_cpu="yes" ;; + mips*) + cpu="mips" + ;; sparc|sun4[cdmuv]) cpu="sparc" - supported_cpu="yes" + ;; + x32|riscv32) ;; *) # This will result in either an error or falling back to TCI later @@ -6438,12 +6440,12 @@ if test "$supported_cpu" = "no"; then echo "WARNING: SUPPORT FOR THIS HOST CPU WILL GO AWAY IN FUTURE RELEASES!" echo echo "CPU host architecture $cpu support is not currently maintained." - echo "The QEMU project intends to remove support for this host CPU in" - echo "a future release if nobody volunteers to maintain it and to" - echo "provide a build host for our continuous integration setup." - echo "configure has succeeded and you can continue to build, but" - echo "if you care about QEMU on this platform you should contact" - echo "us upstream at qemu-devel@nongnu.org." + echo "The QEMU project intends to remove support for all 32 bit host" + echo "CPUs in a future release. 64 bit hosts will need a volunteer" + echo "to maintain it and to provide a build host for our continuous" + echo "integration setup. configure has succeeded and you can continue" + echo "to build, but if you care about QEMU on this platform you" + echo "should contact us upstream at qemu-devel@nongnu.org." fi if test "$supported_os" = "no"; then -- 2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-09-25 23:33 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2019-09-25 23:30 Alex Bennée [this message] 2019-09-25 23:30 ` [RFC PATCH] configure: deprecate 32 bit build hosts Alex Bennée 2019-09-26 7:29 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 2019-09-26 7:50 ` Peter Maydell 2019-09-26 7:50 ` Peter Maydell 2019-09-26 12:58 ` Daniel P. Berrangé 2019-09-26 12:58 ` Daniel P. Berrangé 2019-09-26 13:46 ` Christian Borntraeger 2019-09-26 14:26 ` Thomas Huth 2019-09-26 15:27 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-26 15:27 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-26 16:11 ` Alistair Francis 2019-09-26 16:11 ` Alistair Francis 2019-09-26 19:02 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-26 19:02 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-27 8:55 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2019-09-26 15:31 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-26 15:31 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-26 17:11 ` Richard Henderson 2019-09-26 17:11 ` Richard Henderson 2019-09-30 9:25 ` Daniel P. Berrangé 2019-09-30 9:25 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [not found] ` <87impakrky.fsf@linaro.org> 2019-09-30 10:36 ` Peter Maydell 2019-09-30 10:36 ` Peter Maydell 2019-09-30 11:41 ` Peter Maydell 2019-09-30 11:41 ` Peter Maydell 2019-10-01 17:56 ` Mark Cave-Ayland 2019-10-01 18:02 ` Richard Henderson 2019-10-02 9:10 ` Daniel P. Berrangé 2019-10-02 9:10 ` Daniel P. Berrangé 2019-10-02 15:16 ` Richard Henderson 2019-10-02 15:16 ` Richard Henderson 2019-09-26 7:55 ` Thomas Huth 2019-09-26 15:27 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-26 15:27 ` Alex Bennée 2019-09-27 10:42 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
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