Re: dropping 32-bit host support

[Thomas Huth]

On 16/03/2023 09.07, Liviu Ionescu wrote:
> > On 16 Mar 2023, at 09:57, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not targeting RPi2; there are a lot of RPi4 with less than 8GB RAM (most of 
> > them, actually), and even more RPi3, with even less RAM), and people prefer to 
> > continue using the 32-bit OS on them, which works quite fine;
>
> Like it or not, as long as Raspberry does not explicitly deprecate the 32-bit 
> OS, people will continue to use it, and for good reasons.
>
> As of now, it is even 'Our recommended operating system for most users.':

I'd say "most users" != "the people who want to run QEMU here". If you 
really really want to run QEMU on such a system, you can also install a 
64-bit OS there.

Please also consider that we're only talking about marking the 32-bit arm 
hosts as deprecated in our docs right now. It will take another year (or 
maybe more) until the deprecation will turn into a real unsupported state. I 
assume by that point in time, more and more RPi users will have switched to 
a 64-bit OS instead.

 Thomas