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From: | Thomas Huth |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts |
Date: | Fri, 3 Mar 2023 12:22:12 +0100 |
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On 03/03/2023 12.09, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello! On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:48 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:x86 ==> deprecate both, user and system emulation support on 32-bit hosts arm ==> deprecate only system emulation on 32-bit hosts.I would recommend against dropping support for 32-bit hosts for qemu-user as there are some cases where the emulation of 32-bit user code on 64-bit hosts does not work properly [1]. Adrian[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23960
The ticket is very long and hard to read, but ... oh my, does that mean you need to compile qemu-user in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit x86 host to properly run 32-bit binaries from other architectures? ... uh, that's ugly ... and sounds like bug in QEMU's user mode emulation ... and what if you're running a distro (or different 64-bit host architecutre) that does not support 32-bit userspace libraries anymore? Then you're lost?
Thomas
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