Re: [PATCH 0/2] vfio: Restrict to 64-bit host platforms

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

On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 09:47:19AM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This series avoids compiling VFIO on 32-bit host platforms where it is
> not needed.

If it was previously enabled on 32-bit and was possible to successfully
build & use, then it needs to go through the deprecation process - we
can't just rip out features with no prior warning.

In any case this recently merged:

  commit 6d701c9bac1d3571e9ad511e01b27df7237f0b13
  Author: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
  Date:   Mon Jan 27 16:22:24 2025 -0800

    meson: Deprecate 32-bit host support
    
    We deprecated i686 system mode support for qemu 8.0.  However, to
    make real cleanups to TCG we need to deprecate all 32-bit hosts.

so 32-bit host support in general is nearing end of life. Given that,
I don't think we need to further limit 32-bit host for individual
features, just let it die all at once.


With regards,
Daniel
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