[RFC PATCH] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit host systems

Peter Maydell peter.maydell at linaro.org
Mon Jan 30 11:47:02 UTC 2023


On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 at 11:44, Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Testing 32-bit host OS support takes a lot of precious time during the QEMU
> contiguous integration tests, and considering that many OS vendors stopped
> shipping 32-bit variants of their OS distributions and most hardware from
> the past >10 years is capable of 64-bit

True for x86, not necessarily true for other architectures.
Are you proposing to deprecate x86 32-bit, or all 32-bit?
I'm not entirely sure about whether we're yet at a point where
I'd want to deprecate-and-drop 32-bit arm host support.

thanks
-- PMM



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