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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [PULL 8/8] Revert "docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts for system emulation"
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:36:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230324153610.224673-9-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230324153610.224673-1-thuth@redhat.com>

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.

Message-Id: <20230317165504.613172-1-thuth@redhat.com>
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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-24 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-24 15:36 [PULL 0/8] Misc patches for QEMU 8.0-rc2 Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` [PULL 1/8] hw/ide: replace TABs with space Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` [PULL 2/8] hw/block: " Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` [PULL 3/8] target/s390x: Fix float_comp_to_cc() prototype Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` [PULL 4/8] target/ppc: Fix helper_pminsn() prototype Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` [PULL 5/8] ui/spice: fix compilation on win32 Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` [PULL 6/8] gitlab-ci: Cover SPICE in the MSYS2 job Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` [PULL 7/8] cirrus-ci: Remove MSYS2 jobs duplicated with gitlab-ci Thomas Huth
2023-03-24 15:36 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2023-03-25 16:29 ` [PULL 0/8] Misc patches for QEMU 8.0-rc2 Peter Maydell

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