Re: [PATCH 0/1] meson: Deprecate 32-bit host systems

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 06:23, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>> So unless someone complains immediately with a good reason, I'm also in
>> favor of marking it as deprecated now. If then someone complains during the
>> deprecation period, we still can reconsider and remove the deprecation note
>> again.
>
> Well, I mean the reason would be that I suspect we do still have
> users who are using QEMU for some purposes on 32-bit arm hosts.
> That doesn't mean they're trying to run massively complex or
> high memory guests or that they care that our whole test suite
> doesn't run.
>
> I'm not really strongly opposed to dropping 32-bit host support,
> but I don't think a thread on qemu-devel is exactly likely to
> get the attention of the people who might be using this
> functionality. (You could argue that functionality without
> representation among the developer community is fair game
> for being dumped even if it has users, of course.)

FWIW random internet poll:

  https://mastodon.org.uk/deck/@stsquad/113905257703721811

26% 32 bit
74% 64 bit

with 41 respondents.

>
> -- PMM

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro