qemu system emulation (= full emulated system) on my x86 is a third slower than on my usual build machine.
Not sure how fast userland emulation is. > Am 23.05.2015 um 02:24 schrieb Edwin Amsler <edwin...@gmail.com>: > > That's my thinking too. I know building is supposed to put a platform through > its paces, but virtualizing the more exotic platforms would ease a lot of > package building. > > -- > Edwin (on the move) > >> On May 22, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On May 22, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Henrik Lund Kramshøj <h...@kramse.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 22 May 2015, at 16:40, Philip Cheney <phi...@packwidth.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> I've been building packages as I need them on a Beaglebone Black and I can >>>> go ahead and start a bulk build. >>>> >>>> While it's building, I'll pick up something a little more suitable for the >>>> task, too. It looks like the Wandboard is fairly well supported and the >>>> Quad model has a bit more punch for the cost. Does anyone know of any >>>> caveats to using that system? >>> >>> I am a happy BBB user and will be happy add some EUR/$ for donation to >>> someone willing to build packages. >>> >>> I will prefer to have something permanent setup, but if we start out >>> getting some hardware and estimating the "cost" time, hardware etc. for >>> doing this it would be great. >> >> FreeBSD has had good luck with using userland qemu emulation to build >> packages. More stable than random hardware that was never intended to have >> such a load on it, and quite a bit faster than these little boards. >> >> Warner >> >
