* [PATCH qemu-web] _download/windows.md: Drop 32-bit Windows support
@ 2024-02-20 18:06 Peter Maydell
2024-02-20 18:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Peter Maydell @ 2024-02-20 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé, Thomas Huth, Paolo Bonzini
32-bit Windows is no longer a supported platform for QEMU, and both
MSYS2 and Stefan Weil have stopped building 32-bit packages of it.
Remove the no-longer-working i686 pacman rune, and state explicitly
that 32 bit Windows isn't supported.
Fix a grammar nit in the page while we're here.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
_download/windows.md | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/_download/windows.md b/_download/windows.md
index 43c9ac7..8ce3f0d 100644
--- a/_download/windows.md
+++ b/_download/windows.md
@@ -10,12 +10,6 @@ follow the [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/) installation procedure. Then update
the packages with `pacman -Syu` command. Now choose the proper command for your
system as following:
-* For 32 bit Windows 7 or above (in MINGW32):
-
-```
-pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-qemu
-```
-
* For 64 bit Windows 7 or above (in MINGW64):
```
@@ -28,8 +22,10 @@ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-qemu
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-qemu
```
+32 bit Windows is not supported.
+
Some QEMU related tools can be found in separate packages. Please see the
-MSYS2's [mingw-w64-qemu](https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-qemu) page
+MSYS2 [mingw-w64-qemu](https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-qemu) page
for more information. Any QEMU package related issues can be found in
[MINGW-packages](https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+qemu)
repository.
--
2.34.1
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* Re: [PATCH qemu-web] _download/windows.md: Drop 32-bit Windows support
2024-02-20 18:06 [PATCH qemu-web] _download/windows.md: Drop 32-bit Windows support Peter Maydell
@ 2024-02-20 18:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-02-20 18:43 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-02-21 7:01 ` Thomas Huth
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Daniel P. Berrangé @ 2024-02-20 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Maydell; +Cc: qemu-devel, Thomas Huth, Paolo Bonzini
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 06:06:18PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 32-bit Windows is no longer a supported platform for QEMU, and both
> MSYS2 and Stefan Weil have stopped building 32-bit packages of it.
> Remove the no-longer-working i686 pacman rune, and state explicitly
> that 32 bit Windows isn't supported.
>
> Fix a grammar nit in the page while we're here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> _download/windows.md | 10 +++-------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
With regards,
Daniel
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* Re: [PATCH qemu-web] _download/windows.md: Drop 32-bit Windows support
2024-02-20 18:06 [PATCH qemu-web] _download/windows.md: Drop 32-bit Windows support Peter Maydell
2024-02-20 18:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
@ 2024-02-20 18:43 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-02-21 7:01 ` Thomas Huth
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé @ 2024-02-20 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Maydell, qemu-devel
Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé, Thomas Huth, Paolo Bonzini
On 20/2/24 19:06, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 32-bit Windows is no longer a supported platform for QEMU, and both
> MSYS2 and Stefan Weil have stopped building 32-bit packages of it.
> Remove the no-longer-working i686 pacman rune, and state explicitly
> that 32 bit Windows isn't supported.
>
> Fix a grammar nit in the page while we're here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> _download/windows.md | 10 +++-------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
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* Re: [PATCH qemu-web] _download/windows.md: Drop 32-bit Windows support
2024-02-20 18:06 [PATCH qemu-web] _download/windows.md: Drop 32-bit Windows support Peter Maydell
2024-02-20 18:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-02-20 18:43 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
@ 2024-02-21 7:01 ` Thomas Huth
2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Huth @ 2024-02-21 7:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Maydell, qemu-devel; +Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé, Paolo Bonzini
On 20/02/2024 19.06, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 32-bit Windows is no longer a supported platform for QEMU, and both
> MSYS2 and Stefan Weil have stopped building 32-bit packages of it.
> Remove the no-longer-working i686 pacman rune, and state explicitly
> that 32 bit Windows isn't supported.
>
> Fix a grammar nit in the page while we're here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> _download/windows.md | 10 +++-------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Thanks, applied!
Thomas
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