On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 13:33, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:09:35PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > The Linux kernel has dropped support for allowing 32-bit Arm systems > > to host KVM guests (kernel commit 541ad0150ca4aa663a2, which just > > landed upstream in the 5.7 merge window). Mark QEMU's support for > > this configuration as deprecated, so that we can delete that support > > code in 5.2. > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > > --- > > I was reading the 5.7 merge window writeup on LWN this weekend > > and saw that the dropping of 32-bit support had gone in; just > > enough time to squeeze our deprecation warning into 5.0 so we > > can drop the code in 5.2 rather than 6.0... > > > > docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > The docs are sufficient to start the deprecation process, but > we might consider also having a warning from configure, or a > message on stderr at runtime to make it more visible to users.
Mmm. I didn't feel entirely comfortable making code changes to print messages at this point in the 5.0 release cycle, though. thanks -- PMM
