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Re: armel qualification for Wheezy



W dniu 23.05.2012 22:02, Tixy pisze:
> On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 17:15 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
>> If we really want to replace ancina quickly, we could get some 
>> i.mx53 quick start boards like the ones currently used as armhf 
>> buildd's. I'd like not to introduce new hardware models as
>> buildd's unless they are significantly faster as the old ones.
> 
> I may be being naive, but could an X86 PC be used with an ARM chroot 
> and qemu-arm-static to emulate ARM instructions? Or is qemu not 
> stable enough, or the emulated environment different enough that 
> package building would fail (e.g. through use of uname)?

I do not know how it looks now but in past qemu did not emulated
unaligned memory access which were not possible on armv5 hardware - so
you could have binaries which work in qemu but fail on real hw.


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