On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 10:53:32AM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 8:30 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Jun Aruga wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of, or have, any critical/important use cases that > > > > would > > > be disrupted by QEMU dropping 32-bit *host* support ? If so, let me know > > > here & I can forward feedback on. Or feel free to go direct to QEMU thread > > > upstream. > > > > > > I am not a real user of ARM 32-bit. I just checked information for ARM > > > 32-bit (armv7) use cases. > > > > > > ## Raspberry Pi > > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi > > > > The earlier V1.1 model of the Raspberry Pi 2 used a Broadcom BCM2836 > > > > SoC with a 900 MHz 32-bit, quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor, with 256 > > > > KB shared L2 cache. > > > > > > > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/ > > > > > > It seems that the version 1.1 is the last model for 32-bit, and the > > > announcement was 5 August 2015. > > > I assume a considerable number of people using ARM 32-bit Raspberry Pi. > > > > Right, but I'm rather sceptical that people are running QEMU on the > > 32-bit RPi boards. I might be less surprised about the Linux userspace > > emulation being used, vs full VM, since the former is lower overhead. > > > > > > Sorry to burst your bubble, but since the Raspberry Pi performs quite > badly as a 64-bit device for the moment, I've used it with Fedora > armv7hl instead of aarch64. I personally use the user emulation > mostly, but I know of a couple of cases where system emulation is used > (mainly for buildsys stuff).
Interesting, is there a particular reason why you run the emulation on a Pi, as opposed to using more powerful x86 hardware for it ? I'm not saying you're wrong todo this, just trying to understand the motivation people have. 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 -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
