Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-03-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:48 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > x86 ==> deprecate both, user and system emulation support on > 32-bit hosts > arm ==> deprecate only system emulation on 32-bit hosts. I would recommend against dropping support for 32-bit hosts for qemu-user as there are

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-03-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Thomas! On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 12:22 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > The ticket is very long and hard to read, but ... oh my, does that mean you > need to compile qemu-user in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit x86 host to properly > run 32-bit binaries from other architectures? ... uh, that's ugly ... and

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-03-03 Thread Peter Maydell
On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 11:09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello! > > On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:48 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > x86 ==> deprecate both, user and system emulation support on > > 32-bit hosts > > arm ==> deprecate only system emulation on 32-bit hosts. > > I would

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-03-03 Thread Thomas Huth
On 03/03/2023 12.09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:48 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: x86 ==> deprecate both, user and system emulation support on 32-bit hosts arm ==> deprecate only system emulation on 32-bit hosts. I would recommend against dropping

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-03-03 Thread Thomas Huth
On 02/03/2023 23.07, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 2/3/23 17:31, Thomas Huth wrote: We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of ways to cut down our supported build and target environments. qemu-system-i386 and

Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-03-02 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 2/3/23 17:31, Thomas Huth wrote: We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of ways to cut down our supported build and target environments. qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-arm are not really required anymore, since nobody uses

[PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts

2023-03-02 Thread Thomas Huth
We're struggling quite badly with our CI minutes on the shared gitlab runners, so we urgently need to think of ways to cut down our supported build and target environments. qemu-system-i386 and qemu-system-arm are not really required anymore, since nobody uses KVM on the corresponding systems for