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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-03-17 17:55:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-03-24 12:10:49 +0100 |
| commit | 8635a3a153da3a6712c4ee249c2bf3513cbfdbf7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e1b11a12870576b3d3948dcfc26d1e9118fe803 /docs | |
| parent | da80f11efeea451eaa00e347f722d867ed9ac5be (diff) | |
Revert "docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts for system emulation"
This reverts commit 1d0a8eba38cdddd028ea02c6e0b68f0a4c9a3cbf.
The commit made the wrong assumption that 64-bit distros are most
common these days on arm devices, but as Liviu Ionescu pointed out,
the recommended OS for the very popular Raspberry Pi boards is still
the 32-bit variant, and thus likely still used by a lot of people:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/
Thus it's likely still a little bit too early to put this host
environment on the deprecation list and we should wait a little
bit longer 'til 64-bit distros are the predominant ones.
Message-Id: <20230317165504.613172-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 33b942283f..1ca9dc33d6 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -206,15 +206,6 @@ 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 ---------------------- |