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| 1.. _Deprecated features: 2 3Deprecated features 4=================== 5 6In general features are intended to be supported indefinitely once 7introduced into QEMU. In the event that a feature needs to be removed, 8it will be listed in this section. The feature will remain functional for the --- 150 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 159This is a bug in QEMU that will be fixed in the future so that previously 160accepted incorrect commands will return an error. Users should make sure that 161all arguments passed to ``device_add`` are consistent with the documented 162property types. 163 164Host Architectures 165------------------ 166 | 1.. _Deprecated features: 2 3Deprecated features 4=================== 5 6In general features are intended to be supported indefinitely once 7introduced into QEMU. In the event that a feature needs to be removed, 8it will be listed in this section. The feature will remain functional for the --- 150 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 159This is a bug in QEMU that will be fixed in the future so that previously 160accepted incorrect commands will return an error. Users should make sure that 161all arguments passed to ``device_add`` are consistent with the documented 162property types. 163 164Host Architectures 165------------------ 166 |
| 167BE MIPS (since 7.2) 168''''''''''''''''''' | 167Big endian MIPS since 7.2; 32-bit little endian MIPS since 9.2 168'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' |
| 169 170As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of 171MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our 172cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have 173CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process | 169 170As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of 171MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our 172cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have 173CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process |
| 174completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are 175still a supported host architecture. | 174completes. |
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| 176Likewise, the little endian variant of 32 bit MIPS is not supported by 177Debian 13 ("Trixie") and newer. 178 17964 bit little endian MIPS is still a supported host architecture. 180 |
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| 177System emulation on 32-bit x86 hosts (since 8.0) 178'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 179 180Support for 32-bit x86 host deployments is increasingly uncommon in mainstream 181OS distributions given the widespread availability of 64-bit x86 hardware. 182The QEMU project no longer considers 32-bit x86 support for system emulation to 183be an effective use of its limited resources, and thus intends to discontinue 184it. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years is capable of the --- 307 unchanged lines hidden --- | 181System emulation on 32-bit x86 hosts (since 8.0) 182'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' 183 184Support for 32-bit x86 host deployments is increasingly uncommon in mainstream 185OS distributions given the widespread availability of 64-bit x86 hardware. 186The QEMU project no longer considers 32-bit x86 support for system emulation to 187be an effective use of its limited resources, and thus intends to discontinue 188it. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years is capable of the --- 307 unchanged lines hidden --- |