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[170.10.133.124]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r25-20020a67c319000000b00414052c157fsi5245554vsj.799.2023.03.02.10.05.20 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of berrange@redhat.com designates 170.10.133.124 as permitted sender) client-ip=170.10.133.124; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=GKgxlhgQ; spf=pass (google.com: domain of berrange@redhat.com designates 170.10.133.124 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=berrange@redhat.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=redhat.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1677780320; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=qk1L8nuZFv/j90fcvdYsTtDGs9Int4rt+yuUv0I7X5s=; b=GKgxlhgQaj3YCVUtrMIX+2rFCednD/Jx+AwI3Rm0wPnmffMqmf4lzejQTiMoehwu3dKY9s 5LnSI6gIFiuwibCcm3GrS3BnKBlTnK+LE/YODO9zu5gnwbHThXXj8EMB+XsmdnrP0EMP8n YdomjHgTgKlRuyG8wJgBPKvlX+DdqNM= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-496-AIj7fARBOjSNf1O77iVNPw-1; Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:05:19 -0500 X-MC-Unique: AIj7fARBOjSNf1O77iVNPw-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E5315802D2F; Thu, 2 Mar 2023 18:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from redhat.com (unknown [10.33.36.46]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C865492C14; Thu, 2 Mar 2023 18:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 18:05:13 +0000 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= To: Thomas Huth Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell , Paolo Bonzini , Markus Armbruster , Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= , qemu-arm@nongnu.org, Maxim Levitsky , libvir-list@redhat.com, Richard Henderson , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Reinoud Zandijk Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary Message-ID: Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <20230302163106.465559-1-thuth@redhat.com> <20230302163106.465559-2-thuth@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20230302163106.465559-2-thuth@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9 (2022-11-12) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.9 X-TUID: 6tC2cLmzrFRe On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 05:31:01PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > Hardly anybody really requires the i386 binary anymore, since the > qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset. So let's deprecate > the 32-bit variant now, so that we can finally stop wasting our time > and CI minutes with this. The first sentence isn't quite true wrt to KVM. Change slightly to: Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset of the qemu-system-i386 binary. With the 32-bit host support being deprecated, it is now also possible to deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary. > With regards to 32-bit KVM support in the x86 Linux kernel, > the developers confirmed that they do not need a recent > qemu-system-i386 binary here: > > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Y%2ffkTs5ajFy0hP1U@google.com/ > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth > --- > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Daniel P. 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