On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 05:04 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > just a side note - I was told by an OpenSUSE on ARM person that they > > use > > x86 boxes with the user-space qemu virtual machine. It works quite > > fast, > > but still needs some hacking eg. in test-suites > > Yep, OpenSUSE uses qemu - it's sometimes not as stable as it should be, > I saw a few strange random crashes in qemu but usually it works. I > talked with them once, they were surprised by our "native builds" policy. > > Maybe it's worth to ask them (or look at for example Mer builds) what's > the difference in build times.
Fully-emulated actually fits into the "Native Builds" guideline, but it hasn't been economical to use this approach because there's no hardware support for ARM emulation on x86 (the way that there is hardware acceleration for x86 virtualization on x86) and it therefore requires a very fast/expensive x86 box to emulate a slow/cheap ARM box. -Chris -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
