Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

On 2/3/23 17:31, Thomas Huth wrote: > We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared > gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of ways to cut down > our supported build and target environments. qemu-system-i386 and > qemu-system-arm are not really required anymore, since nobody uses > KVM on the corresponding systems for production anymore, and the > -x86_64 and -arch64 variants are a proper superset of those binaries. > So it's time to deprecate them and the corresponding 32-bit host > environments now. > > This is a follow-up patch series from the previous discussion here: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230130114428.1297295-1-thuth@redhat.... > > where people still mentioned that there is still interest in certain > support for 32-bit host hardware. But as far as I could see, there is > no real need for 32-bit x86 host support and for system emulation on > 32-bit arm hosts anymore, so it should be fine if we drop these host > environments soon (these are also the two architectures that contribute > the most to the long test times in our CI, so we would benefit a lot by > dropping those). It is not clear from your cover that the deprecation only concern system emulation on these hosts, not user emulation.

I wonder about tools. Apparently they depend on sysemu now. I was building a 'configure --enable-tools --disable-system' but now it is empty.