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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 2/3/23 17:31, 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 at redhat.com>
> ---
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> 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:

s/some/few/?

> +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=541ad0150ca4
> +). Thus the QEMU project will drop the ``qemu-system-arm`` binary in a
> +future release. Use ``qemu-system-aarch64`` instead.

If we unify, wouldn't it be simpler to name the single qemu-system
binary emulating various ARM architectures as 'qemu-system-arm'?