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Re:Bought an Ampere Altra System by zozbot234 on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:21AM (#44421526)
> No you can't use ARM as android build farms, as androids build tools only work on x86 (go figure).

Does qemu-user solve that, or are there special requirements due to JIT and the like that qemu-user can't support?

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Re:Bought an Ampere Altra System by dijit on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:34AM (#44424566)
I'm not sure I'm comfortable buying hardware for build systems that has to emulate an instruction set to build.

Doubly-so when that hardware has a native instruction set originally to the target.

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