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		mmastrac on June 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trashing Chromebooks As a curiosity -- why not use QEMU to test ARM? Or is that risking incompatibility with real ARM hardware?

krasin on June 11, 2014 [–]

In practice, both (qemu and hw) buildbots are useful. qemu is a bit faster and easier to scale, hw is the ground truth.

Google Native Client buildbots are exactly like that:

qemu: http://build.chromium.org/p/client.nacl/builders/precise_64-...

pandaboard: http://build.chromium.org/p/client.nacl/builders/oneiric_32-...

And yes, Panda is very unstable under heavy load. :(

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