>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2007 at 12:32 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Would this be a case for having a z/Linux hosted on Hercules/390 on a > x86 platform? I don't see the need for the reliability and scalability > for this sort of thing. This "test environment" could be accessable via > NFS or some other method to actually copy compiled modules to the real > System z environment. Of course, it would not be useful for actual > system level testing, but for just compiling and initial testing, it > might be useful.
I would say no. It would be far better to do cross-compiles, rather than emulating an entire architecure to do native compiles. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
