On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 05:05:20PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 11/4/25 15:42, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:57:23PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote: > > > For system mode, we can rarely support the amount of RAM that > > > the guest requires. TCG emulation is restricted to round-robin > > > mode, which solves many of the atomicity issues, but not those > > > associated with virtio. In any case, round-robin does nothing > > > to help the speed of emulation. > > > > > > For user mode, most emulation does not succeed at all. Most > > > of the time we cannot even load 64-bit non-PIE binaries due > > > to lack of a 64-bit address space. Threads are run in > > > parallel, not round-robin, which means that atomicity > > > is not handled. > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > > > Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org> > > > Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> > > > --- > > > meson.build | 13 ++++++++++--- > > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > Shouldn't this patch and the earlier ones in this series have > > added something to removed-features.rst, as this is a significant > > feature removal which is impacting downstream users, and distros > > in particular. > > IIRC the rationale for not deprecating was the feature is largely > broken already. Skipping the deprecation process we indeed forgot > to document in removed-features.rst. > > Do you expect the doc update for the 10.0 release?
The issue is that https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.0 delegates to removed-features.rst, so if we don't have time to update the rst file, then we at least need to edit ChangeLog/10.0 to mention this removal of binaries as a fallback With 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 :|
