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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2024-02-22 13:09:18 +0000
committerThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2024-02-23 08:13:52 +0100
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docs: Document that 32-bit Windows is unsupported
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Message-ID: <20240222130920.362517-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
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@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ unprivileged accounts can create symlinks if Developer Mode is enabled.
When Developer Mode is not available/enabled, the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
privilege is required, or the process must be run as an administrator.
+Only 64-bit Windows is supported.
+
.. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
.. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/
.. _MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org/
diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
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@@ -659,6 +659,21 @@ This command didn't produce any output already. Removed with no replacement.
The ``singlestep`` command has been replaced by the ``one-insn-per-tb``
command, which has the same behaviour but a less misleading name.
+Host Architectures
+------------------
+
+System emulation on 32-bit Windows hosts (removed in 9.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Windows 11 has no support for 32-bit host installs, and Windows 10 did
+not support new 32-bit installs, only upgrades. 32-bit Windows support
+has now been dropped by the MSYS2 project. QEMU also is deprecating
+and dropping support for 32-bit x86 host deployments in
+general. 32-bit Windows is therefore no longer a supported host for
+QEMU. 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.
+
Guest Emulator ISAs
-------------------