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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:25:54 +1000
From: Ralph Ronnquist <rrq@???>
To: Didier Kryn <kryn@???>
Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan armhf / armel for my Samsung / Google Chromebook
    model XE303C12 "Snow" ?
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 02:09:53PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 21/06/2023 à 12:13, Ralph Ronnquist a écrit :
> > It also works fine using "multiarch" (in which case the architecture
> > transition is seamless). I.e., set up your system to have armhf
> > (and/or armel) as additional "foreign" architecture(s) and then a
> > plain debootstrap will be fine.
>
>     multiarch makes sense for i386 and x86-64 (amd64) and for powerpc 32 and
> 64, because the cpus are able to execute instructions of both arches. I
> would be extermely surprised if it worked for amd64 and armhf.

Yes it did surprise me too :) Works fine for my amd6 laptop; a bit
slow, but that's no different from a "proper" qemu VM. (The multiarch
approach is basically the same as running a foreign qemu-static within
a foreign filesystem). But "seamless"; doesn;t need chroot.

Ralph.

>
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