Re: [RFC PATCH] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit host systems

Testing 32-bit host OS support takes a lot of precious time during the QEMU contiguous integration tests, and considering that many OS vendors stopped shipping 32-bit variants of their OS distributions and most hardware from the past >10 years is capable of 64-bit, keeping the 32-bit support alive is an inadequate burden for the QEMU project. Let's mark the 32-bit support as deprecated so we can drop it after a while - this will help us to cut down our limited CI minutes in the gitlab CI, for example. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 9f1bbc495d..ce6463e72b 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -181,9 +181,20 @@ As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process -completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are +completes. The little endian variants of MIPS are still a supported host architecture. +32-bit host operating systems (since 8.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Testing 32-bit host OS support takes a lot of precious time during the QEMU +contiguous integration tests, and considering that many OS vendors stopped +shipping 32-bit variants of their OS distributions and most hardware from +the past >10 years is capable of 64-bit, keeping the 32-bit support alive +is an inadequate burden for the QEMU project. Thus QEMU will soon drop the +support for 32-bit host systems. + + QEMU API (QAPI) events ----------------------

From our (SUSE) support perspective, we do not support 32bit virtualization hosts downstream,