From 5c27baf9519a990729e864cf984e08e15f3d9431 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Huth Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 09:46:54 +0100 Subject: docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts for system emulation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') 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 ---------------------- -- cgit v1.1