Re: [PATCH 0/1] meson: Deprecate 32-bit host systems

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 3/2/25 10:10, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 06:23, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> So unless someone complains immediately with a good reason, I'm also in
>>> favor of marking it as deprecated now. If then someone complains during the
>>> deprecation period, we still can reconsider and remove the deprecation note
>>> again.
>>
>> Well, I mean the reason would be that I suspect we do still have
>> users who are using QEMU for some purposes on 32-bit arm hosts.
>> That doesn't mean they're trying to run massively complex or
>> high memory guests or that they care that our whole test suite
>> doesn't run.
>>
>> I'm not really strongly opposed to dropping 32-bit host support,
>> but I don't think a thread on qemu-devel is exactly likely to
>> get the attention of the people who might be using this
>> functionality. (You could argue that functionality without
>> representation among the developer community is fair game
>> for being dumped even if it has users, of course.)
> 
> FWIW random internet poll:
> 
>    https://mastodon.org.uk/deck/@stsquad/113905257703721811
> 
> 26% 32 bit
> 74% 64 bit
> 
> with 41 respondents.

Note that some respondents who voted to maintain 32-bit support
mixed 32-bit host with 32-bit guests.