From patchwork Mon Mar 6 08:46:55 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Thomas Huth X-Patchwork-Id: 13160711 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DBCBC61DA4 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:47:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.506782.779955 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pZ6V2-00018P-Qf; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:47:16 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 506782.779955; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:47:16 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pZ6V2-00018I-ML; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:47:16 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 506782; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:47:16 +0000 Received: from se1-gles-flk1-in.inumbo.com ([94.247.172.50] helo=se1-gles-flk1.inumbo.com) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pZ6V2-0000ol-2g for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 08:47:16 +0000 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by se1-gles-flk1.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 7cb2f890-bbfb-11ed-a550-8520e6686977; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:47:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mimecast-mx02.redhat.com [66.187.233.88]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-212-NkXWXKrvNS6cNOE-ISoWlA-1; Mon, 06 Mar 2023 03:47:08 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 027C487A391; Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thuth.com (unknown [10.39.193.101]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC35A175AD; Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:47:05 +0000 (UTC) X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: 7cb2f890-bbfb-11ed-a550-8520e6686977 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1678092431; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=37MyqIGrJ8NDqQYDY+IFgkqLJhkh+Oz/+/sGdhCxVu4=; b=d93zdGY+sC/dp6PQ7r4RRuswWzSmxDJYAbbV1op3/OuLn4cXrFdWqrCdf8h7zeWpA2xdPb Z5vDvXkamjiToVj1vzHZ4npFlx+spxnJO/JNuqiX4JuQHQF0SL6pJZ6UDkzB9Gd6MFcNNz lOEfw9nLUHg67R+kM+/+LzEni1fshAA= X-MC-Unique: NkXWXKrvNS6cNOE-ISoWlA-1 From: Thomas Huth To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell , Daniel Berrange , Paolo Bonzini Cc: Markus Armbruster , =?utf-8?q?Alex_Benn=C3=A9e?= , qemu-arm@nongnu.org, Maxim Levitsky , libvir-list@redhat.com, Richard Henderson , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Reinoud Zandijk , Wilfred Mallawa , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Subject: [PATCH v4 2/5] docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 09:46:55 +0100 Message-Id: <20230306084658.29709-3-thuth@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20230306084658.29709-1-thuth@redhat.com> References: <20230306084658.29709-1-thuth@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.5 Aside from not supporting KVM on 32-bit hosts, the qemu-system-x86_64 binary is a proper superset of the qemu-system-i386 binary. With the 32-bit host support being deprecated, it is now also possible to deprecate the qemu-system-i386 binary. With regards to 32-bit KVM support in the x86 Linux kernel, the developers confirmed that they do not need a recent qemu-system-i386 binary here: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Y%2ffkTs5ajFy0hP1U@google.com/ Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 1ca9dc33d6..c4fcc6b33c 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -34,6 +34,20 @@ deprecating the build option and no longer defend it in CI. The ``--enable-gcov`` build option remains for analysis test case coverage. +``qemu-system-i386`` binary (since 8.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``qemu-system-i386`` binary was mainly useful for running with KVM +on 32-bit x86 hosts, but most Linux distributions already removed their +support for 32-bit x86 kernels, so hardly anybody still needs this. The +``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary is a proper superset and can be used to +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. If a 32-bit CPU guest +environment should be enforced, you can switch off the "long mode" CPU +flag, e.g. with ``-cpu max,lm=off``. + + System emulator command line arguments --------------------------------------