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| author | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2022-05-20 08:04:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2022-05-20 08:04:30 -0700 |
| commit | 3757b0d08b399c609954cf57f273b1167e5d7a8d (patch) | |
| tree | 493cb159a16cf99323bb8c1cb286c940366d05fc /docs | |
| parent | 3a650ac995ca36fb9974b82ba50aac8d1fd18b6a (diff) | |
| parent | 83602083b4ada6ceb86bfb327e83556ebab120fc (diff) | |
Merge tag 'pull-request-2022-05-18' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging
* Remove Ubuntu 18.04 containers (not supported anymore)
* Improve the cleanup of the QEMU binary in case of failing qtests
* Update the Windows support statement
* Remove the capstone submodule (and rely on Capstone of the distros instead)
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* tag 'pull-request-2022-05-18' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu:
capstone: Remove the capstone submodule
capstone: Allow version 3.0.5 again
tests/vm: Add capstone to the NetBSD and OpenBSD VMs
docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows
tests/qtest: use prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) as fallback to kill QEMU
tests/qtest: fix registration of ABRT handler for QEMU cleanup
Remove Ubuntu 18.04 container support from the repository
gitlab-ci: Switch the container of the 'check-patch' & 'check-dco' jobs
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index e9163ba556..1958edb430 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -86,11 +86,15 @@ similar versions. Windows ------- -The project supports building with current versions of the MinGW toolchain, -hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora). - -The version of the Windows API that's currently targeted is Vista / Server -2008. +The project aims to support the two most recent versions of Windows that are +still supported by the vendor. The minimum Windows API that is currently +targeted is "Windows 7", so theoretically the QEMU binaries can still be run +on older versions of Windows, too. However, such old versions of Windows are +not tested anymore, so it is recommended to use one of the latest versions of +Windows instead. + +The project supports building QEMU with current versions of the MinGW +toolchain, either hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora) or via MSYS2 on Windows. .. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/ .. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/ |