From 34fabc85e0c626999768995ec3eff1c5a5143354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Maydell Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:09:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Document that 32-bit Windows is unsupported MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: "Daniel P. Berrangé" Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell Message-ID: <20240222130920.362517-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 2 ++ docs/about/removed-features.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index f2a7aec56f..8fd7da140a 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ unprivileged accounts can create symlinks if Developer Mode is enabled. When Developer Mode is not available/enabled, the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege privilege is required, or the process must be run as an administrator. +Only 64-bit Windows is supported. + .. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/ .. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/ .. _MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org/ diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index 54081a6c19..417a0e4fa1 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -659,6 +659,21 @@ This command didn't produce any output already. Removed with no replacement. The ``singlestep`` command has been replaced by the ``one-insn-per-tb`` command, which has the same behaviour but a less misleading name. +Host Architectures +------------------ + +System emulation on 32-bit Windows hosts (removed in 9.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Windows 11 has no support for 32-bit host installs, and Windows 10 did +not support new 32-bit installs, only upgrades. 32-bit Windows support +has now been dropped by the MSYS2 project. QEMU also is deprecating +and dropping support for 32-bit x86 host deployments in +general. 32-bit Windows is therefore no longer a supported host for +QEMU. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years is +capable of the 64-bit x86 extensions, a corresponding 64-bit OS should +be used instead. + Guest Emulator ISAs -------------------