On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 07:59:58PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> > Is there any reason qemu-mipsel isn't good enough?
>
> There was a concern (flamewar) a few years ago that doing that would
> result in broken binaries. I don't know how true that would be today
> or if it is now consider acceptible.
qemu-user-*, I can understand that. But qemu-system-*, which emulates the
whole machine? Unless there is some insidious bug in qemu which shows up
only for some rare opcode or for some corner case of hardware access, I
can't see how it is supposed to produce broken binaries. Unless you get
close to the metal, things either work or not.
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