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Revert "docs/about/deprecated: Deprecate 32-bit arm hosts for system emulation" 

This reverts commit 1d0a8eba38.

The commit made the wrong assumption that 64-bit distros are most
common these days on arm devices, but as Liviu Ionescu pointed out,
the recommended OS for the very popular Raspberry Pi boards is still
the 32-bit variant, and thus likely still used by a lot of people:

 https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

Thus it's likely still a little bit too early to put this host
environment on the deprecation list and we should wait a little
bit longer 'til 64-bit distros are the predominant ones.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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@ -206,15 +206,6 @@ be an effective use of its limited resources, and thus intends to discontinue
it. 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.
System emulation on 32-bit arm hosts (since 8.0)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Since QEMU needs a strong host machine for running full system emulation, and
all recent powerful arm hosts support 64-bit, the QEMU project deprecates the
support for running any system emulation on 32-bit arm hosts in general. Use
64-bit arm hosts for system emulation instead. (Note: "user" mode emulation
continues to be supported on 32-bit arm hosts, too)
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