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Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary
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- From: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 00:49:29 +0000
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On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 18:05 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 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.
>
+1
> > 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%2ffkTs5ajFy0hP1U@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@xxxxxxx>
>
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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