Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
I've never used QEMU and I think nowadays ARM hardware is really cheap to get. So even for a first try beginners may rather buy an ARM board than using QEMU. 2012/8/31 Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com: Hi I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current. I only added these years ago because my real ARM hardware died and I needed a stop gap. The thing is that QEMU is *so slow* that I cannot imagine it being useful at all, apart from a 10 minute novelty for x86 users. It takes time to test whether the installation works, and takes time to build the Versatile kernel. Is anybody going to miss it if I drop the packages and install docs? -- Stuart Winter www.slackware.com/~mozes Slackware for ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com wrote: Hi I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current. I only added these years ago because my real ARM hardware died and I needed a stop gap. The thing is that QEMU is *so slow* that I cannot imagine it being useful at all, apart from a 10 minute novelty for x86 users. It takes time to test whether the installation works, and takes time to build the Versatile kernel. Is anybody going to miss it if I drop the packages and install docs? Well... I would, since I often build packages in a qemu VM (I'm usually in no hurry, so time isn't a problem). However, I can adjust :-) -RW ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
I still find qemu useful when I want to test something out amd that qould be emulating ARM from x86 hardware. I know arm hardware is cheap nowadays ... but qemu is cheaper and no need to wait for shipping ;) Da: Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com A: Slackware ARM mailing list armedslack@lists.armedslack.org Inviato: Venerdì 31 Agosto 2012 16:09 Oggetto: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it? Hi I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current. I only added these years ago because my real ARM hardware died and I needed a stop gap. The thing is that QEMU is *so slow* that I cannot imagine it being useful at all, apart from a 10 minute novelty for x86 users. It takes time to test whether the installation works, and takes time to build the Versatile kernel. Is anybody going to miss it if I drop the packages and install docs? -- Stuart Winter www.slackware.com/~mozes Slackware for ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
On 31 August 2012 15:09, Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com wrote: I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current. I only added these years ago because my real ARM hardware died and I needed a stop gap. I don't understand what you mean by qemu packages. Do you mean the /slackwarearm/slackwarearm-devtools/qemu/ ? I have actually never used those to install inside qemu. I only used the mini-root and the volatile kernel. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
I don't understand what you mean by qemu packages. Do you mean the /slackwarearm/slackwarearm-devtools/qemu/ ? The 'versatile' kernel packages. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
On 31 August 2012 16:22, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: I don't understand what you mean by qemu packages. Do you mean the /slackwarearm/slackwarearm-devtools/qemu/ ? The 'versatile' kernel packages. Then in this case, yes, I'd still like to play with them if possible. ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
and you can add gobs of RAM SWAP support in qeum that isnt available to the real hardware. The machine type I provide packages for is the VersatilePB which only supports 256MB RAM, and you certainly would not want it paging. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM: www.armedslack.org ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Robby Workman ro...@rlworkman.net wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Stuart Winter mo...@slackware.com wrote: Hi I am thinking about removing the QEMU packages from -current. I only added these years ago because my real ARM hardware died and I needed a stop gap. The thing is that QEMU is *so slow* that I cannot imagine it being useful at all, apart from a 10 minute novelty for x86 users. It takes time to test whether the installation works, and takes time to build the Versatile kernel. Is anybody going to miss it if I drop the packages and install docs? Well... I would, since I often build packages in a qemu VM (I'm usually in no hurry, so time isn't a problem). However, I can adjust :-) -RW Yeah, I'd miss it too... I still use qemu with its snapshot feature to build packages on a clean installation. My real ARM hardware has too many packages installed to consider it a clean installation. -- Niels Horn ___ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
