On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 12:53:30PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 15/9/23 11:24, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > > On 14/9/23 17:54, Alex Bennée wrote: > > > > Bookworm has been out a while now. Time to update our containers to > > > > the current stable. This requires the latest lcitool repo so update > > > > the sub-module too. > > > > > > > > For some reason the MIPs containers won't build so skip those for now. > > > > > > Debian removed mipsel: > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/09/msg00000.html > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2019/08/msg00582.html ... > > > > Wwith our general aim to support latest release, plus the previous > > release (capped to a maximum of 2 years), we can still consider > > mipsel supportable in QEMU CI by sticking with oldstable (Bullseye) > > for the mipsel containers. > > > > Once Debian 13 comes out, however, we'll be discarding Bullseye > > from CI and so we'll be unable to do CI for mipsel. At the very > > least this means we'll consider mipsel to be downgraded in terms > > of supportability when that happens. We might then consider > > explicitly dropping it as a buld target entirely, as the writing > > is on the wall for 32-bit OS platforms in general... > > I'm fine with dropping system emulation on 32-bit hosts, but a bit > reluctant to drop user emulation there. Anyhow I agree with our > distrib releases support rules, so the mipsel buildsys part is > effectively condemned.
I wouldn't say condemned, because we are free to continue including mipsel code in QEMU if we desire - we just will be unable to guarantee that it works correctly - we'd be relying on developers and users to report bugs and test it on whatever distro thye happen to still have working. Cutting it back to just user emulation is a reasonable thing - testing user mode guest is not locked into our support matrix, so we can easily test user mode binaries via ancient distros if desired. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
