Re: armel qualification for Wheezy
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:02:33PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> 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)?
It is _horribly_ slow.
> PCs have the advantage of RAM (assuming QEMU can handle 2GB+), fast
> hardware and multiple cores.
Yes, but qemu doesn't really use more than one cpu, can't (last I checked)
emulate more than one cpu core, and since it is emulating is rather slow
(although it is fast as emulators go).
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Len Sorensen
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