Re: [PATCH] .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml: Drop msys2-32bit job

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 04:56:02PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> MSYS2 is dropping support for 32-bit Windows.  This shows up for us
> as various packages we were using in our CI job no longer being
> available to install, which causes the job to fail.  In commit
> 8e31b744fdf we dropped the dependency on libusb and spice, but the
> dtc package has also now been removed.
> 
> For us as QEMU upstream, "32 bit x86 hosts for system emulation" have
> already been deprecated as of QEMU 8.0, so we are ready to drop them
> anyway.
> 
> Drop the msys2-32bit CI job, as the first step in doing this.
> 
> This is cc'd to stable, because this job will also be broken for CI
> on the stable branches.  We can't drop 32-bit support entirely there,
> but we will still be covering at least compilation for 32-bit Windows
> via the cross-win32-system job.
> 
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Minimal patch that disables CI, for ease of backporting.
> ---
>  .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 9 ---------
>  1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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