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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-03-06 09:46:57 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-03-08 08:57:42 +0100 |
| commit | 1d0a8eba38cdddd028ea02c6e0b68f0a4c9a3cbf (patch) | |
| tree | a5ca957e7b0aceebab07c328d9e65b972588122f /docs/about | |
| parent | 4f9a8315e65561bafa03651518aa5d22af09bdee (diff) | |
docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts for system emulation
For running QEMU in system emulation mode, the user needs a rather
strong host system, i.e. not only an embedded low-frequency controller.
All recent beefy arm host machines should support 64-bit now, it's
unlikely that anybody is still seriously using QEMU on a 32-bit arm
CPU, so we deprecate the 32-bit arm hosts here to finally save use
some time and precious CI minutes.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
Message-Id: <20230306084658.29709-5-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/about')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 1ca9dc33d6..33b942283f 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -206,6 +206,15 @@ 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. +System emulation on 32-bit arm hosts (since 8.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Since QEMU needs a strong host machine for running full system emulation, and +all recent powerful arm hosts support 64-bit, the QEMU project deprecates the +support for running any system emulation on 32-bit arm hosts in general. Use +64-bit arm hosts for system emulation instead. (Note: "user" mode emulation +continues to be supported on 32-bit arm hosts, too) + QEMU API (QAPI) events ---------------------- |