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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Maxim Levitsky" <mlevitsk@redhat.com>,
	libvir-list@redhat.com,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	"Reinoud Zandijk" <reinoud@netbsd.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary
Date: Thu,  2 Mar 2023 17:31:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230302163106.465559-5-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230302163106.465559-1-thuth@redhat.com>

qemu-system-aarch64 is a proper superset of qemu-system-arm,
and the latter was mainly still required for 32-bit KVM support.
But this 32-bit KVM arm support has been dropped in the Linux
kernel a couple of years ago already, so we don't really need
qemu-system-arm anymore, thus deprecated it now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index a30aa8dfdf..21ce70b5c9 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ run 32-bit guests by selecting a 32-bit CPU model, including KVM support
 on x86_64 hosts. Thus users are recommended to reconfigure their systems
 to use the ``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary instead.
 
+``qemu-system-arm`` binary (since 8.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+``qemu-system-aarch64`` is a proper superset of ``qemu-system-arm``. The
+latter was mainly a requirement for running KVM on 32-bit arm hosts, but
+this 32-bit KVM support has been removed some years ago already (see:
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=541ad0150ca4
+). Thus the QEMU project will drop the ``qemu-system-arm`` binary in a
+future release. Use ``qemu-system-aarch64`` instead.
+
 
 System emulator command line arguments
 --------------------------------------
-- 
2.31.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-02 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-02 16:31 [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:05   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03  0:49     ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:05   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03  0:52   ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the i386 jobs Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:07   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03  0:53   ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2023-03-02 18:07   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 22:16   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-03-03  7:36     ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03  0:55   ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-03 11:16   ` Peter Maydell
2023-03-03 11:31     ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03 11:39       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:09   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-03  0:57   ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 16:31 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the 32-bit arm system emulation jobs Thomas Huth
2023-03-02 18:10   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-03-02 21:58   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-03-03  0:57   ` Wilfred Mallawa
2023-03-02 22:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-03-03  9:48   ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03 11:09     ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-03-03 11:22       ` Thomas Huth
2023-03-03 11:57         ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2023-03-03 11:24       ` Peter Maydell

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