----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Horák" <d...@danny.cz>
> To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:50:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Which arch should we add to Copr?
> 
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:01:48 +0200
> Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dne 17. 09. 19 v 13:12 Dan Horák napsal(a):
> > > sounds great, but are they using a real hw or are they emulated (and
> > > how)?
> > 
> > It will be emulated using --forcearch
> > https://github.com/rpm-software-management/mock/wiki/Feature-forcearch
> 
> hm, as much as I would like to have more arches in Copr, I don't think
> the emulation is production quality. Recent changes in glibc exposed
> hard-to-find bugs in the s390x TCG in qemu and I saw at least one
> emulation related bug for armv7 as well.
It might not be perfect, but AFAIK at least one Linux distribution (Sailfish OS)
has been using emulated 32-bit ARM on x86_64 hosts since 2013 to build 
everything
without any native build hardware. Their OBS instance can be found & inspected 
here:
https://build.merproject.org/

> 
> What blocks you from using armv7 VMs on aarch64 hosts?
> 
> 
>               Dan
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