On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 12:36 AM Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 09:05:16PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > >> Well, without CI, I assume that the code will bitrot quite fast > (considering > >> that there are continuous improvements to TCG, for example). > > > > We have lots of hosts which we don't test with CI. They don't bitrot > > because people do testing before release. This is what RCs are for. > > We did releases before CI - it is a cost/benefit thing. > > Dropping 32-bit x86 from CI feels like a no-brainer in the current > situation. > > As to deprecating 32-bit x86: the people by far most qualified to judge > the "cost/benefit thing" are the regulars who are bearing the cost, > i.e. the people who are actually maintaining it. Their opinion should > overrule any "but somebody out there might still want to use it". > > Maintainers, please state your opinion, if any: aye or nay. > > Richard tells us "the maint overhead is large." Makes me think he's in > favour of dropping 32-bit x86. Richard? > > Peter seems to be reluctant to drop 32-bit ARM at this point. Peter? > For FreeBSD systen we have no 32bit arm host users. There may be a few i386 host users left, but they are a tiny sliver of users. The overwhelming bulk of our users for qemu-system- are on x86-64 or aarch64 hosts. For bsd-user, there is no 32 bit host support at all. It was dropped as part of the push to prune old code and upstream. Warner >