Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 06:23, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: >> So unless someone complains immediately with a good reason, I'm also in >> favor of marking it as deprecated now. If then someone complains during the >> deprecation period, we still can reconsider and remove the deprecation note >> again. > > Well, I mean the reason would be that I suspect we do still have > users who are using QEMU for some purposes on 32-bit arm hosts. > That doesn't mean they're trying to run massively complex or > high memory guests or that they care that our whole test suite > doesn't run. > > I'm not really strongly opposed to dropping 32-bit host support, > but I don't think a thread on qemu-devel is exactly likely to > get the attention of the people who might be using this > functionality. (You could argue that functionality without > representation among the developer community is fair game > for being dumped even if it has users, of course.)
FWIW random internet poll: https://mastodon.org.uk/deck/@stsquad/113905257703721811 26% 32 bit 74% 64 bit with 41 respondents. > > -- PMM -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
