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
next prev 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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