On Sunday 06 of January 2008 13:04:13 Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:19:10 +0100 > > > > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PS: has anybody checked how viable is now qemu-system ? > > > > Testing on qemu isn't anything like testing on real hardware. It's not > > a reliable or useful way of doing arch work. > > We ALL know that the right way is to build on the target hw, test on the > hw and do that in a TIMELY manner. > > Now, since seems that certain arches do not have enough hw or people > which are the workaround to have stuff tested to a minimum in time? > > - emulate such hardware if you don't own it > - use cross-distcc if you have the hardware but takes ages to build or > just requires too much power. > - use qemu-system or qemu-softmmu if you don't have access to the hw.
Might as well toss a coin or check the phase of the moon... -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
