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. > 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%[email protected]/ > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> > --- > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> 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 :|
