On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:51:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
If sheer number of build machines is an issue, one could spin up a
qemu
running ppc on a non-ppc box.
This isn't as easy as it sounds. I couldn't get qemu-system-ppc[1] to
boot at all, *even* with the supposed PPC experts on the qemu list
helping me. There are multiple problems with the BIOS that ships with
qemu.
Rich.
[1] or qemu-system-ppc64, or both, I can't recall now.
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