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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-03-06 09:46:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-03-07 14:30:42 +0100 |
| commit | 5c27baf9519a990729e864cf984e08e15f3d9431 (patch) | |
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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 <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
Message-Id: <20230306084658.29709-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 15084f7..1ca9dc3 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 ---------------------- |