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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2024-02-22 13:09:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2024-02-23 08:13:52 +0100 |
| commit | 34fabc85e0c626999768995ec3eff1c5a5143354 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ab5437248502063e6106762ac9d10f6ee177da1 /docs | |
| parent | 64c1a5443528ac09d8cd50f365d6a2fb8375b90c (diff) | |
docs: Document that 32-bit Windows is unsupported
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20240222130920.362517-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/removed-features.rst | 15 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index f2a7aec56f..8fd7da140a 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ unprivileged accounts can create symlinks if Developer Mode is enabled. When Developer Mode is not available/enabled, the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege privilege is required, or the process must be run as an administrator. +Only 64-bit Windows is supported. + .. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/ .. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/ .. _MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org/ diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index 54081a6c19..417a0e4fa1 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -659,6 +659,21 @@ This command didn't produce any output already. Removed with no replacement. The ``singlestep`` command has been replaced by the ``one-insn-per-tb`` command, which has the same behaviour but a less misleading name. +Host Architectures +------------------ + +System emulation on 32-bit Windows hosts (removed in 9.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Windows 11 has no support for 32-bit host installs, and Windows 10 did +not support new 32-bit installs, only upgrades. 32-bit Windows support +has now been dropped by the MSYS2 project. QEMU also is deprecating +and dropping support for 32-bit x86 host deployments in +general. 32-bit Windows is therefore no longer a supported host for +QEMU. 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. + Guest Emulator ISAs ------------------- |