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
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
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
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
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
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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.
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
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
