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		zozbot234 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bought myself an Ampere Altra system > 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?

dijit 3 months ago [–]

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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