Re: [for-5.0] Deprecate KVM support for AArch32

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 01:41:05PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 13:33, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:09:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > The Linux kernel has dropped support for allowing 32-bit Arm systems
> > > to host KVM guests (kernel commit 541ad0150ca4aa663a2, which just
> > > landed upstream in the 5.7 merge window).  Mark QEMU's support for
> > > this configuration as deprecated, so that we can delete that support
> > > code in 5.2.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > > I was reading the 5.7 merge window writeup on LWN this weekend
> > > and saw that the dropping of 32-bit support had gone in; just
> > > enough time to squeeze our deprecation warning into 5.0 so we
> > > can drop the code in 5.2 rather than 6.0...
> > >
> > >  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >
> > The docs are sufficient to start the deprecation process, but
> > we might consider also having a warning from configure, or a
> > message on stderr at runtime to make it more visible to users.
> 
> Mmm. I didn't feel entirely comfortable making code changes to
> print messages at this point in the 5.0 release cycle, though.

Sure, that's understandable.

Regards,
Daniel
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