On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 18:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 05:31:01PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
Hardly anybody really requires the i386 binary anymore, since the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset. So let's deprecate the 32-bit variant now, so that we can finally stop wasting our time and CI minutes with this.
The first sentence isn't quite true wrt to KVM. Change slightly to:
Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset of the qemu-system-i386 binary. With the 32-bit host support being deprecated, it is now also possible to deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary.
+1
With regards to 32-bit KVM support in the x86 Linux kernel, the developers confirmed that they do not need a recent qemu-system-i386 binary here:
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Y%2ffkTs5ajFy0hP1U@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
With regards, Daniel