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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Yonggang Luo" <luoyonggang@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] docs: Document that 32-bit Windows is unsupported
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:09:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240222130920.362517-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240222130920.362517-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
 docs/about/build-platforms.rst  |  2 ++
 docs/about/removed-features.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
index f2a7aec56ff..8fd7da140a3 100644
--- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ unprivileged accounts can create symlinks if Developer Mode is enabled.
 When Developer Mode is not available/enabled, the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
 privilege is required, or the process must be run as an administrator.
 
+Only 64-bit Windows is supported.
+
 .. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
 .. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/
 .. _MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org/
diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index 54081a6c196..417a0e4fa1d 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -659,6 +659,21 @@ This command didn't produce any output already. Removed with no replacement.
 The ``singlestep`` command has been replaced by the ``one-insn-per-tb``
 command, which has the same behaviour but a less misleading name.
 
+Host Architectures
+------------------
+
+System emulation on 32-bit Windows hosts (removed in 9.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Windows 11 has no support for 32-bit host installs, and Windows 10 did
+not support new 32-bit installs, only upgrades. 32-bit Windows support
+has now been dropped by the MSYS2 project. QEMU also is deprecating
+and dropping support for 32-bit x86 host deployments in
+general. 32-bit Windows is therefore no longer a supported host for
+QEMU.  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.
+
 Guest Emulator ISAs
 -------------------
 
-- 
2.34.1



  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-22 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-22 13:09 [PATCH v2 0/3] Drop 32-bit Windows as a supported platform Peter Maydell
2024-02-22 13:09 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2024-02-22 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] .gitlab-ci.d: Drop cross-win32-system job Peter Maydell
2024-02-22 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Remove shared-msys2 abstraction Peter Maydell
2024-02-22 13:11   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-02-22 13:12   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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