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 production anymore, and the -x86_64 and -arch64 variants are a proper superset of those binaries. So it's time to deprecate them and the corresponding 32-bit host environments now. This is a follow-up patch series from the previous discussion here: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230130114428.1297295-1-thuth@xxxxxxxxxx/ where people still mentioned that there is still interest in certain support for 32-bit host hardware. But as far as I could see, there is no real need for 32-bit host support for system emulation on x86 and arm anymore, so it should be fine if we drop these host environments now (these are also the two architectures that contribute the most to the long test times in our CI, so we would benefit a lot by dropping those). Thomas Huth (2): docs/about: Deprecate 32-bit x86 hosts and qemu-system-i386 docs/about: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts and qemu-system-arm docs/about/deprecated.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) -- 2.31.1
