[PATCH v2 1/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary
Daniel P. Berrangé
berrange at redhat.com
Thu Mar 2 18:05:13 UTC 2023
On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 05:31:01PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Hardly anybody really requires the i386 binary anymore, since the
> qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset. So let's deprecate
> the 32-bit variant now, so that we can finally stop wasting our time
> and CI minutes with this.
The first sentence isn't quite true wrt to KVM. Change slightly to:
Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64
binary is a proper superset of the qemu-system-i386 binary. With the
32-bit host support being deprecated, it is now also possible to
deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary.
> With regards to 32-bit KVM support in the x86 Linux kernel,
> the developers confirmed that they do not need a recent
> qemu-system-i386 binary here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Y%2ffkTs5ajFy0hP1U@google.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
With regards,
Daniel
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