Re: [for-5.0] Deprecate KVM support for AArch32

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 13:33, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > 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