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Re:Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster by genpfault on Monday December 24, 2018 @01:39PM (#18753539)
> You can't run binaries designed for a normal PC on an ARM board

...doesn't Debian ship some multiarch/QEMU/binfmt plumbing to make this work? Binfmt to taste the binary, see that it's i386/amd64, and then launch QEMU (and associated ARM multiarch libs) with user-mode emulation?

Slow as dirt I'm sure but it'll work.

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Re:Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster by KindOne on Monday December 24, 2018 @06:42PM (#18754921)
You can also try ExaGear. (I've never used it.)

https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15018992

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Re:Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster by RealityVoid on Monday December 24, 2018 @08:10PM (#18755241)
Surely that does not qualify as "running the binaries" if you emulate another arch! I mean if you want to be nitpicky, yes, you're running them, but that is not what most people think when saying that.
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Re:Build your own bare-metal ARM cluster by qubex on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @03:30AM (#18756582)
...but don’t people/users speak of “running Java apps” all the time?
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