Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: New 32-bit Arm support needed for future OBS builds

On 05/02/2020 17:22, Guillaume Gardet wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Torsten Duwe Sent: 05 February 2020 16:41 To: Guillaume Gardet Cc: Josua Mayer ; opensuse-arm@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: New 32-bit Arm support needed for future OBS builds

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:15:28PM +0000, Guillaume Gardet wrote:

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No, that is the problem. With newer hardware, this option will be gone as 32-bit

mode will not be supported in kernel mode, so qemu/kvm cannot run armv7 kernel.

Are you sure about this? I mean, those cores will not be able to run 32-bit kernels natively, sure, but my (maybe outdated) information is that kvm always runs guest code in "user mode" and faults on privileged instructions, which are then emulated anyway.

That's what I have been told. I will double check.

Were you abe to double check? I belive we can run 32-bit VMs on 64-bit machines. The thing is that KVM for arm32 will be dropped in the future. I know we are using some arm32 HW to build packages, so we should look for an alternative. Regards, Matthias -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org