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[PATCH v3 5/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm bina
From: |
Thomas Huth |
Subject: |
[PATCH v3 5/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary |
Date: |
Fri, 3 Mar 2023 11:14:51 +0100 |
qemu-system-aarch64 is a proper superset of qemu-system-arm,
and the latter was mainly still required for 32-bit KVM support.
But this 32-bit KVM arm support has been dropped in the Linux
kernel a couple of years ago already, so we don't really need
qemu-system-arm anymore, thus deprecated it now.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index e2e908f84d..1b7b3da309 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ run 32-bit guests by selecting a 32-bit CPU model, including
KVM support
on x86_64 hosts. Thus users are recommended to reconfigure their systems
to use the ``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary instead.
+``qemu-system-arm`` binary (since 8.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+``qemu-system-aarch64`` is a proper superset of ``qemu-system-arm``. The
+latter was mainly a requirement for running KVM on 32-bit arm hosts, but
+this 32-bit KVM support has been removed three years ago already (see:
+https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=541ad0150ca4
+). Thus the QEMU project will drop the ``qemu-system-arm`` binary in a
+future release. Use ``qemu-system-aarch64`` instead.
+
System emulator command line arguments
--------------------------------------
--
2.31.1
- [PATCH v3 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts, Thomas Huth, 2023/03/03
- [PATCH v3 1/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts, Thomas Huth, 2023/03/03
- [PATCH v3 2/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary, Thomas Huth, 2023/03/03
- [PATCH v3 3/6] gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the i386 jobs, Thomas Huth, 2023/03/03
- [PATCH v3 4/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts for system emulation, Thomas Huth, 2023/03/03
- [PATCH v3 6/6] gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds: Drop the 32-bit arm system emulation jobs, Thomas Huth, 2023/03/03
- [PATCH v3 5/6] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-arm binary,
Thomas Huth <=