On 3/2/25 10:10, Alex Bennée wrote:
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.
Note that some respondents who voted to maintain 32-bit support
mixed 32-bit host with 32-bit guests.
