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). -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120523214527.gc32...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
