[PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

Fri Mar 3 11:57:31 UTC 2023

Hi Thomas!

On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 12:22 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The ticket is very long and hard to read, but ... oh my, does that mean you 
> need to compile qemu-user in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit x86 host to properly 
> run 32-bit binaries from other architectures? ... uh, that's ugly ... and 
> sounds like bug in QEMU's user mode emulation ... and what if you're running 
> a distro (or different 64-bit host architecutre) that does not support 
> 32-bit userspace libraries anymore? Then you're lost?

Perhaps the explanation here by Florian Weimer is a bit easier to understand:

> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87bm56vqg4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/

Adrian

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