Good ${greeting_time}, Maurice!

02 Mar 2020 20:00:24, you wrote to me:

 AV>> So now you would.
 MK> So now I wouldn't. I suppose it depends on the definition of smart
 MK> devices. I probably should have said smartphones and left it at that.

Same thing with BV6000 (MT6755, 2Gb, 16Gb).
Better CPU (SoC, more precisely), but less RAM.

 AV>> Rockchip RK3288-based mediabox with 4 Gb RAM and 32 Gb flash
 MK> That I've heard of but I call those single board computers rather
 MK> than smart devices. I used to build kernels AND rootfs that
 MK> targetted such devices. Pure c source too, compiled by gcc, gcc-4
 MK> being the favoured compiler to take care of them. Also build a
 MK> complete developemnt system in ~128M based on gcc-4 and
 MK> glibc-2.something.or.other.

Here the build environment is created from a scratch (that means, list of
packages to fetch from local copy of the repository) and deleted just after
copying the fresh packages to the repo.

 MK> I don't remember now which version of glibc. Absolutely zero java
 MK> and given the native development enviroment I'd say infinetly more
 MK> powerful than anything java based. Also zero python and/or perl
 MK> while we're at it.

... unless explicitly stated in BuildRequires line of the .spec

 MK> bash was king on it.

Bash is just a PoS.

 AV>> Building the kernel takes approx. 2 hours there :-)
 MK> Not bad.  Which version?

5.5.7 for now.

However, my favorite server at work builds it just in 4...5 minutes:

gremlin@taishan:~ > grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo
96


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