[PATCH v2 4/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary
qemu-system-aarch64 is a proper superset of qemu-system-arm,
and the latter was mainly still required for 32-bit KVM support.
But this 32-bit KVM arm support has been dropped in the Linux
kernel a couple of years ago already, so we don't really need
qemu-system-arm anymore, thus deprecated it now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index a30aa8dfdf..21ce70b5c9 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ run 32-bit guests by selecting a 32-bit CPU model, including KVM
support
on x86_64 hosts. Thus users are recommended to reconfigure their systems
to use the ``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary instead.
+``qemu-system-arm`` binary (since 8.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+``qemu-system-aarch64`` is a proper superset of ``qemu-system-arm``. The
+latter was mainly a requirement for running KVM on 32-bit arm hosts, but
+this 32-bit KVM support has been removed some years ago already (see:
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=541ad0150ca4
+). Thus the QEMU project will drop the ``qemu-system-arm`` binary in a
+future release. Use ``qemu-system-aarch64`` instead.
+
System emulator command line arguments
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2.31.1