Testing 32-bit host OS support takes a lot of precious time during the QEMU
contiguous integration tests, and considering that many OS vendors stopped
shipping 32-bit variants of their OS distributions and most hardware from
the past >10 years is capable of 64-bit, keeping the 32-bit support alive
is an inadequate burden for the QEMU project. Let's mark the 32-bit
support as deprecated so we can drop it after a while - this will help
us to cut down our limited CI minutes in the gitlab CI, for example.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 9f1bbc495d..ce6463e72b 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -181,9 +181,20 @@ As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of
MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our
cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have
CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process
-completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are
+completes. The little endian variants of MIPS are
still a supported host architecture.
+32-bit host operating systems (since 8.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Testing 32-bit host OS support takes a lot of precious time during the QEMU
+contiguous integration tests, and considering that many OS vendors stopped
+shipping 32-bit variants of their OS distributions and most hardware from
+the past >10 years is capable of 64-bit, keeping the 32-bit support alive
+is an inadequate burden for the QEMU project. Thus QEMU will soon drop the
+support for 32-bit host systems.
+
+
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