From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Liviu Ionescu" <ilg@livius.net>,
"Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Wilfred Mallawa" <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts for system emulation"
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:55:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230317165504.613172-1-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
This reverts commit 1d0a8eba38cdddd028ea02c6e0b68f0a4c9a3cbf.
The commit made the wrong assumption that 64-bit distros are most
common these days on arm devices, but as Liviu Ionescu pointed out,
the recommended OS for the very popular Raspberry Pi boards is still
the 32-bit variant, and thus likely still used by a lot of people:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/
Thus it's likely still a little bit too early to put this host
environment on the deprecation list and we should wait a little
bit longer 'til 64-bit distros are the predominant ones.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 33b942283f..1ca9dc33d6 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -206,15 +206,6 @@ be an effective use of its limited resources, and thus intends to discontinue
it. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years is capable of the
64-bit x86 extensions, a corresponding 64-bit OS should be used instead.
-System emulation on 32-bit arm hosts (since 8.0)
-''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
-
-Since QEMU needs a strong host machine for running full system emulation, and
-all recent powerful arm hosts support 64-bit, the QEMU project deprecates the
-support for running any system emulation on 32-bit arm hosts in general. Use
-64-bit arm hosts for system emulation instead. (Note: "user" mode emulation
-continues to be supported on 32-bit arm hosts, too)
-
QEMU API (QAPI) events
----------------------
--
2.31.1
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