Re: [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&gt; --- 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.