On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 04:37:56PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> We removed support for 32-bit PPC hosts in commit 5c1ec5a1ee0
> ("tcg/ppc: Remove support for 32-bit hosts").
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
> ---
> docs/about/removed-features.rst | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
> index 88ea0dc4edc..3ebbe9aec98 100644
> --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
> @@ -902,6 +902,12 @@ From 10.0, QEMU has disabled configuration of 64-bit
> guests on 32-bit hosts.
> Debian 12 "Bookworm" removed support for 32-bit MIPS, making it hard to
> maintain our cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture.
>
> +32-bit PPC (since 11.0)
We're in freeze for 10.2, not 11.0
> +'''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +Keeping 32-bit host support alive is a substantial burden for the
> +QEMU project.
That's a suitable justification for the original commit, but for the
removed features user docs I think we can simply say
"The QEMU project no longer supports 32-bit host builds"
With regards,
Daniel
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