On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 at 08:09, Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
This change seems like a no-brainer. We keep some i686 support where it's necessary, but nobody should need to run qemu on i686 hosts. This goes in the right direction of shrinking the i686 maintenance burden to the absolute minimum. -- _______________________________________________ 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
