19.02.2020 12:26, Matthias Brugger пишет:
> 
> 
> On 05/02/2020 17:22, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Torsten Duwe <d...@suse.de>
>>> Sent: 05 February 2020 16:41
>>> To: Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gar...@arm.com>
>>> Cc: Josua Mayer <josua.maye...@gmail.com>; 
>>> opensuse-arm-staj6esoqrxg9huczpv...@public.gmane.org
>>> Subject: Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: New 32-bit Arm support needed for future OBS
>>> builds
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:15:28PM +0000, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No, that is the problem. With newer hardware, this option will be gone as 
>>>> 32-bit
>>> mode will not be supported in kernel mode, so qemu/kvm cannot run armv7
>>> kernel.
>>>
>>> Are you sure about this? I mean, those cores will not be able to run 32-bit 
>>> kernels
>>> natively, sure, but my (maybe outdated) information is that kvm always runs
>>> guest code in "user mode" and faults on privileged instructions, which are 
>>> then
>>> emulated anyway.
>>
>> That's what I have been told. I will double check.
>>
> 
> Were you abe to double check? I belive we can run 32-bit VMs on 64-bit 
> machines.
> The thing is that KVM for arm32 will be dropped in the future. I know we are

Why it will be dropped?

> using some arm32 HW to build packages, so we should look for an alternative.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthias
> 


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