On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 17:31 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > qemu-system-aarch64 is a proper superset of qemu-system-arm, > and the latter was mainly still required for 32-bit KVM support. > But this 32-bit KVM arm support has been dropped in the Linux > kernel a couple of years ago already, so we don't really need > qemu-system-arm anymore, thus deprecated it now. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <wilfred.mallawa@xxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst > index a30aa8dfdf..21ce70b5c9 100644 > --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst > +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst > @@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ run 32-bit guests by selecting a 32-bit CPU model, > including KVM support > on x86_64 hosts. Thus users are recommended to reconfigure their > systems > to use the ``qemu-system-x86_64`` binary instead. > > +``qemu-system-arm`` binary (since 8.0) > +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > + > +``qemu-system-aarch64`` is a proper superset of ``qemu-system-arm``. > The > +latter was mainly a requirement for running KVM on 32-bit arm hosts, > but > +this 32-bit KVM support has been removed some years ago already > (see: > + > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/com > mit/?id=541ad0150ca4 > +). Thus the QEMU project will drop the ``qemu-system-arm`` binary in > a > +future release. Use ``qemu-system-aarch64`` instead. > + > > System emulator command line arguments > --------------------------------------
