Re: dropping 32-bit host support

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu@gmail.com>]

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чт, 16 мар. 2023 г., 13:01 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>:

> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > The problem is really that we don't have unlimited resources in the
> > QEMU project. Currently we're heavily struggling with the load in the
> > CI, but also pure man power is always very scarce. So at one point in
> > time, you have to decide to say good bye to some old and hardly used
> > features - at least to stop testing and actively supporting it. If you
> > want to continue testing and fixing bugs for such host systems, that's
> > fine, of course, but don't expect the QEMU developers to do that job
> > in the future.
>
> This.
>
> We're out of free lunch.  We're glad you enjoyed it while it lasted.
>
> If you want more lunch, you need to join the kitchen.  Here are a few
> things we need to keep a host or target supported:
>
> * Competent maintainer(s) to relieve the ones who have maintained this
>   for you so far
>
> * CI runners to conserve scarce CI minutes (or the money to buy more)
>
> * Trustworthy system administrator(s) to set them up and keep them
>   running.
>


* Four - different developer culture, like, a bit fewer commits to run CI
with ? :)



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