This one time, at band camp, Hamish Moffatt said: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:02:57AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I am sure qemu is very good at what it does, but I do not have faith > > that it can stand in for a real CPU in all the corner cases. If > > Do you think it's likely that it can boot the kernel and run the build > environment without crashing, but produce broken binaries? I think the more important question is, are we positive it won't? ballombe has already found differences between an emulated environment and a real cpu, where the test suite failed on qemu and passed on a real cpu. I have no confidence that it can't fail the other way. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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