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[88.187.86.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-38c5c1d0bbfsm13395823f8f.98.2025.02.03.08.06.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Feb 2025 08:06:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6b3a1206-3567-4c21-854b-d3e3ba16bdbf@linaro.org> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 17:06:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] meson: Deprecate 32-bit host systems To: =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= , Peter Maydell Cc: Thomas Huth , =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= , Richard Henderson , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk, Liviu Ionescu References: <20250128004254.33442-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org> <9a280789-9248-4eca-b50c-048fc58e3f53@redhat.com> <87plk72tvr.fsf@draig.linaro.org> <8c0eea44-d0bf-4b86-9b1b-1c2082ab2df9@linaro.org> <9bf6d4b0-7a89-4110-a1e1-46bbdb2fc793@linaro.org> <87cyfzfl6b.fsf@draig.linaro.org> Content-Language: en-US From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= In-Reply-To: <87cyfzfl6b.fsf@draig.linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::32d; envelope-from=philmd@linaro.org; helo=mail-wm1-x32d.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org On 3/2/25 10:10, Alex Bennée wrote: > Peter Maydell writes: > >> On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 06:23, Thomas Huth 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.