Chris Tyler píše v Út 20. 03. 2012 v 14:40 -0400: > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:21 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > > drago01 píše v Út 20. 03. 2012 v 17:57 +0100: > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Brendan Conoboy <blc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 03/20/2012 09:37 AM, drago01 wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> I'm a big fan of cross compilation, but introducing it into Fedora in > > > >>> order > > > >>> to support ARM seems unlikely to succeed for too many reasons to go into. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> The reasons are? .... > > > > > > > > > > > > Okay, why not? > > > > > > > > The ones off the top of my head, and this is by no means exhaustive: > > > > > > > > 1. Fedora Policy (Which I imagine is based on the technical foundation of > > > > the following 5+ points and others I'm unaware of). > > > > > > I said "technical" so lets take policy aside ... > > > > > > > 2. Many packages assume a native execution environment which will not exist. > > > > Incredible undertaking to move 11000 packages to cross compilation > > > > framework. > > > > > > qemu? Should be still faster then doing the whole build on arm. > > > > 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 > > With Qemu, my $1200 i7 quadcore desktop can successfully emulate a $129 > GuruPlug. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to go this route. no, I don't want to recommend it, but I'd expect that the user-space (syscall) emulation in qemu would be faster than the full system emulation, because all I/O is native speed. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
