On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 06:45:06PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 at 14:25, Allison King via devel-announce > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DropQEMU32bitHostBuilds > > > > Discussion Thread: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/172601 > > > > **This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.** > > This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, > > proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. > > This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora > > Engineering Steering Committee. > > > > == Summary == > > The QEMU upstream project deprecated support for 32-bit host builds and > > will start removing this in a near-term forthcoming release. It is not > > practical for Fedora to re-enable 32-bit support over the long term, as > > QEMU's intent with dropping 32-bit support code is to enable code to be > > changed to assume 64-bit atomic ops in all builds. > > Fedora will thus stop building the QEMU package on the i686 architecture. > > So the 32 bit targets, like microcontroller emulation, remains, it's > just the i686 builds? Just wondering as I use the emulators for a lot > of testing of things.
Correct, it will continue to be possible to emulate 32-bit guest machines / applications as before, there are no plans or desire to remove emulation features. This is just about reducing the host OS build burden With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
