It's becoming harder to maintain a cross-compiler to test this host
architecture as the old stable Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS
which supports fewer architectures. For now:
- mark it's deprecation in the docs
- downgrade the containers to build TCG tests only
- drop the cross builds from our CI
Users with an appropriate toolchain and user-space can still take
their chances building it.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220914155950.804707-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Since commit fbf43c7dbf ("target/riscv: enable riscv kvm accel"),
KVM accelerator is supported on RISC-V. Let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Message-Id: <20220719082635.3741878-1-bin.meng@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
These changes match those made in the following libvirt commits:
2ac78307af docs: Clarify our stance on backported packages
78cffd450a docs: Spell out our policy concerning minor releases
Since QEMU's platform support policy is based on libvirt's, it
makes sense to mirror these recent changes made to the latter.
The policy is not altered significantly - we're simply spelling
out some rules that were likely already being implicitly
enforced.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Commit cf60ccc330 ("cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism") introduced
a Python script to populate a bundle directory using os.symlink() to
point to the binaries in the pc-bios directory of the source tree.
Commit 882084a04a ("datadir: Use bundle mechanism") removed previous
logic in pc-bios/meson.build to create a link/copy of pc-bios binaries
in the build tree so os.symlink() is the way to go.
However os.symlink() may fail [1] on Windows if an unprivileged Windows
user started the QEMU build process, which results in QEMU executables
generated in the build tree not able to load the default BIOS/firmware
images due to symbolic links not present in the bundle directory.
This commits updates the documentation by adding such caveats for users
who want to build QEMU on the Windows platform.
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.symlink
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20220719135014.764981-1-bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Developers often run QEMU without installing. The bundle mechanism
allows to look up files which should be present in installation even in
such a situation.
It is a general mechanism and can find any files in the installation
tree. The build tree will have a new directory, qemu-bundle, to
represent what files the installation tree would have for reference by
the executables.
Note that it abandons compatibility with Windows older than 8. The
extended support for the prior version, 7 ended more than 2 years ago,
and it is unlikely that someone would like to run the latest QEMU on
such an old system.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220624145039.49929-3-akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Our support statement for Windows currently talks about "Vista / Server
2008" - which is related to the API of Windows, and this is not easy
to understand for the non-technical users. Additionally, glib sets the
_WIN32_WINNT macro to 0x0601 already, which indicates the Windows 7 API,
so QEMU effectively depends on the Windows 7 API, too.
Thus let's bump the _WIN32_WINNT setting in QEMU to the same level as
glib uses and adjust our support statement in the documentation to
something similar that we're using for Linux and the *BSD systems
(i.e. only the two most recent versions), which should hopefully be
easier to understand for the users now.
And since we're nowadays also compile-testing QEMU with MSYS2 on Windows
itself, I think we could mention this build environment here, too.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/880
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Message-Id: <20220513063958.1181443-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The official spelling does not use camel case.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20220422083403.1082924-1-sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
The following commits (released in v6.0.0) made raised the
quality of the TCI backend to the other TCG architectures,
thus is is not considerated experimental anymore:
- c6fbea47664..2f74f45e32b
- dc09f047edd..9e9acb7b348
- b6139eb0578..2fc6f16ca5e
- dbcbda2cd84..5e8892db93f
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20211106111457.517546-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
I was looking for such documentation, but couldn't find it. Add it to
the build-platform.rst document.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Now that we have a single Sphinx manual rather than multiple manuals,
we can provide a better place for "common to all of QEMU" information
like the deprecation notices, build platforms, license information,
which we currently have in the system/ manual even though it applies
to all of QEMU.
Create a new directory about/ on the same level as system/, user/,
etc, and move these documents there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210705095547.15790-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Alex Bennée
Bin Meng
Andrea Bolognani
Akihiko Odaki
Thomas Huth
Stefan Weil
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Marc-André Lureau
Peter Maydell