Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

[Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>]

On 12/27/09 07:17, Somebody in the thread at some point said:

Hi Rob -

>> Fedora provides a whole solution there, with the restriction it's
>> designed for native build, not cross.
>
> QEMU: it's not just for breakfast anymore.

That's right Qemu often requires lunch, teatime and supper too to build 
anything :-)

Newer ARM platforms like Cortex8+ and the Marvell Sheevaplug will 
outstrip emulated performance on a normal PC.  There are 2GHz multi-core 
ARMs coming as well apparently.  So I took the view I should ignore Qemu 
and get an early start on the true native build that will be the future 
of "native build" as opposed to cross due to that.

The point of the distro is you just let them build the bulk of it, just 
installing binary packages.  You're only rebuilding the bits you are 
changing for your application.  For a lot of cases that's a few small 
app packages that are mainly linking against stuff from the distro and 
they're not too bad to do natively.  (In addition my workflow is to edit 
on a host PC and use scripts to teleport a source tree tarball to the 
device where it's built as a package every time and installed together 
with its -devel, so everything is always under package control).

-Andy