From: Thomas Huth Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:46:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts for system emulation X-Git-Tag: v8.0.0-rc0~17^2~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c27baf9519a990729e864cf984e08e15f3d9431;p=thirdparty%2Fqemu.git docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts for system emulation Hardly anybody still uses 32-bit x86 hosts today, so we should start deprecating them to stop wasting our time and CI minutes here. Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa Message-Id: <20230306084658.29709-2-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 15084f7bea4..1ca9dc33d61 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are still a supported host architecture. +System emulation on 32-bit x86 hosts (since 8.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Support for 32-bit x86 host deployments is increasingly uncommon in mainstream +OS distributions given the widespread availability of 64-bit x86 hardware. +The QEMU project no longer considers 32-bit x86 support for system emulation to +be an effective use of its limited resources, and thus intends to discontinue +it. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years is capable of the +64-bit x86 extensions, a corresponding 64-bit OS should be used instead. + + QEMU API (QAPI) events ----------------------