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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, qemu-arm@nongnu.org,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	"Anthony PERARD" <anthony@xenproject.org>,
	"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Paul Durrant" <paul@xen.org>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Juergen Gross" <jgross@suse.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"Vikram Garhwal" <vikram.garhwal@bytedance.com>,
	"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] meson: Remove support for Xen on 32-bit ARM hosts
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:26:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250218162618.46167-9-philmd@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250218162618.46167-1-philmd@linaro.org>

Per Stefano:

  For ARM 32-bit, I do not think we ever had many deployments,
  as most are 64-bit. Even when there are deployments, they do
  not typically use QEMU, as QEMU is less important for Xen on
  ARM compared to x86.

The QEMU project only test to cross-build Xen on Aarch64 hosts
(see 84eda110792 ("gitlab-ci: Add Xen cross-build jobs").
Since 32-bit host aren't tested, simply remove the support there.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2502031438170.11632@ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop/
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
---
While apparently running Xen on 32-bit hosts isn't straighforward
anymore (see [x]), we don't need to remove it ASAP, it is already
in the deprecation queue since commit 6d701c9bac1 ("meson:
Deprecate 32-bit host support").

[x] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/173d18bf-f68c-4bd5-b822-abb1c1f0c51b@suse.com/
---
 docs/about/removed-features.rst | 5 +++++
 meson.build                     | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index c6616ce05e5..f6ea53acc8b 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -969,6 +969,11 @@ MIPS "Trap-and-Emulate" KVM support (removed in 8.0)
 The MIPS "Trap-and-Emulate" KVM host and guest support was removed
 from Linux in 2021, and is not supported anymore by QEMU either.
 
+Xen on 32-bit ARM hosts (removed in 10.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Untested for more than 4 years.
+
 System emulator machines
 ------------------------
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 8ed10b6624e..7b80d8dff09 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -308,9 +308,6 @@ if cpu == 'x86'
   xen_targets = ['i386-softmmu']
 elif cpu == 'x86_64'
   xen_targets = ['i386-softmmu', 'x86_64-softmmu']
-elif cpu == 'arm'
-  # i386 emulator provides xenpv machine type for multiple architectures
-  xen_targets = ['i386-softmmu']
 elif cpu == 'aarch64'
   # i386 emulator provides xenpv machine type for multiple architectures
   xen_targets = ['i386-softmmu', 'x86_64-softmmu', 'aarch64-softmmu']
-- 
2.47.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-18 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-18 16:26 [PATCH 0/8] xen: Build fixes and dust removal Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 1/8] accel/Kconfig: Link XenPVH with GPEX PCIe bridge Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-18 16:35   ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2025-02-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/8] hw/arm: Do not expose the virt machine on Xen-only binary Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-18 16:52   ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2025-02-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/8] hw/arm/xen-pvh: Do not allow specifying any CPU type Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 4/8] hw/xen/xen-pvh: Reduce included headers Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-18 16:53   ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2025-02-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 5/8] hw/xen/xen-hvm: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-28 15:46   ` Anthony PERARD
2025-02-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 6/8] hw/xen/xen-bus: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-28 15:56   ` Anthony PERARD
2025-02-18 16:26 ` [PATCH 7/8] hw/xen/xen-legacy-backend: Remove unused 'net/net.h' header Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-02-28 15:58   ` Anthony PERARD
2025-02-18 16:26 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2025-02-28 16:27   ` [PATCH 8/8] meson: Remove support for Xen on 32-bit ARM hosts Anthony PERARD
2025-03-03 11:11 ` [PATCH 0/8] xen: Build fixes and dust removal Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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