On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 01:41:05PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > 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.
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