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Linux has supported x86 emulation on ARM chips for many years now, I think even before Android started supporting x86 chips.



Eh kind of? qemu can be used with binfmt-misc to do CPU emulation while still passing syscalls to the running kernel, but it's a long way from perfect - there's various corner cases that cause problems.




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