[Arm-netbook] One other thing -- emulation question...

[Christopher Havel]

On 10/23/2013 2:54 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> On 10/23/2013 02:37 PM, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>>> Quite. We have this functionality already and it's as simple as:
>>> apt-get install qemu-system-x86
>>>
>>> Not sure if debian has packaged the statically-linked version whch
>>> lets you run random foreign binaries in chroots, but that's a small
>>> matter.
>>
>> Do you mean qemu-user-x86? That lacks futex() implementation so
>> wouldn't run anything more or less interesting... But yep, fixing that
>> would be a good task for someone young and ambitious to learn to
>> hack ;-).
>
> $ > ./fix-exclusive-for-inclusive
> good task for _anyone_ ambitious to learn to hack.
>
I'm not ambitious hardly at all, and I don't really like Debian that much.

Plus, I can't imagine that doing the emulation entirely in software is 
beneficial performance-wise vs. what I'm suggesting. It's *easier* but I 
don't think it's *better*. (I'm open minded tho. You're the experts, I'm 
not.)