Taking the occasion to forward this link which Peter mentioned on IRC with kudos for the Linaro QEMu work and Peter's work: https://review.source.android.com/#change,23433 [...] "The system could boot and seems to work perfectly. Not a single issue has been experienced during testing." [...] "Thanks to Peter Maydell at Linaro and ARM with his hard work to make this happen (first in upstream, and now on Android)." [...]