[ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

Thorsten Mühlfelder thenktor at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 14:29:09 UTC 2012


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 <mozes at 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
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