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Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:10:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from draig.lan ([185.126.160.109]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-5dc723e9f9csm7407658a12.28.2025.02.03.01.10.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from draig (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by draig.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1B25F9DD; Mon, 3 Feb 2025 09:10:36 +0000 (GMT) From: =?utf-8?Q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= To: Peter Maydell Cc: Thomas Huth , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , Daniel P. =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?= , Richard Henderson , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk, Liviu Ionescu Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] meson: Deprecate 32-bit host systems In-Reply-To: (Peter Maydell's message of "Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:23:47 +0000") References: <20250128004254.33442-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org> <9a280789-9248-4eca-b50c-048fc58e3f53@redhat.com> <87plk72tvr.fsf@draig.linaro.org> <8c0eea44-d0bf-4b86-9b1b-1c2082ab2df9@linaro.org> <9bf6d4b0-7a89-4110-a1e1-46bbdb2fc793@linaro.org> User-Agent: mu4e 1.12.8; emacs 29.4 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:10:36 +0000 Message-ID: <87cyfzfl6b.fsf@draig.linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::52f; envelope-from=alex.bennee@linaro.org; helo=mail-ed1-x52f.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Peter Maydell writes: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 06:23, Thomas Huth 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 n= ote >> 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 --=20 Alex Benn=C3=A9e Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro