[PATCH v2 1/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary

[Wilfred Mallawa]

On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 18:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 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.
> 
+1
> > 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>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa at wdc.com>
> 
> 
> With regards,
> Daniel