From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE75C88E66 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout-04.galae.net (smtpout-04.galae.net [185.171.202.116]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.msgproc01-g2.18977.1789389327121549143 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:35:28 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@bootlin.com header.s=dkim header.b=R3/Spa9H; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 185.171.202.116, mailfrom: antonin.godard@bootlin.com) Received: from smtpout-01.galae.net (smtpout-01.galae.net [212.83.139.233]) by smtpout-04.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 257BDC6220A; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.galae.net (mail.galae.net [212.83.136.155]) by smtpout-01.galae.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 141AE60323; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Mailerdaemon) with ESMTPSA id 8355411C7AFA1; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:35:19 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=dkim; t=1789389320; h=from:subject:date:message-id:to:cc:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:references; bh=WK6X4xyvy1kidVHh9IrZ7egWkk5cxT1wttMa6QicVW8=; b=R3/Spa9HH7ZcDsMAJ3hMbBk5PvLEUayJ2lR/Xg2SZGlObaP4v9nOMtFJJSFys3NNz4bj/b dya4rJASBIUtaNKRlw+ZeEcHtugfQrDzJ5HFi+WqHPZP6UjizctT5Fww6zecuz8YPfaIAP m6ALXXcwAwzRumusH+7hQZhg/3DkWv8nExLOyH/CDW2L/jebmqrfDURvAtFywKpXpmZ48I 1q7TNqI1LmoBfUhTBiGipCn7PpiGkMF8P8LQehEOl1B/+5a5Ke9Dek4GXPuqAOZROlBXwK EosvdeAn5aKS/rqVOhpTje4vQT2FwlKgX0VeGf8sz+m8iCYMl9obxhKJE9kW9w== Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:35:18 +0200 Message-Id: Cc: "YP docs mailing list" From: "Antonin Godard" To: "Robert P. J. Day" , "Richard Purdie" Subject: Re: [docs] how should one update "dual, six-core Xeons"? References: <5f70fb6ea6d2c9a4a24f476f463ab1adf02aa7e5.camel@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: X-Last-TLS-Session-Version: TLSv1.3 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:35:34 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/10491 Hi, On Mon Sep 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2026, Richard Purdie wrote: > >> On Mon, 2026-09-14 at 10:36 +0200, Antonin Godard via lists.yoctoproject= .org wrote: >> > On Fri Sep 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM CEST, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> > > >> > > here: >> > > >> > > https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/dev-manual/start.html >> > > >> > > it's amusing to read, "These systems, in general, should be high >> > > performance (e.g. dual, six-core Xeons with 24 Gbytes of RAM and >> > > plenty of disk space)." >> > > >> > > would someone like to suggest a more modern configuration, and i'll >> > > submit a patch. >> > >> > We could simply say: "&MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM, at least &MIN_DISK_SPAC= E; disk >> > space". >> > >> > Those are replaced by our poky.yaml.in replacements when building. >> > >> > Not sure we need to mention a processor model here, as it would become= obsolete >> > in the future. >> >> I think the key is to mention multi cored system, "ideally with at least= 16 cores"? > > i can submit a v2 with that info, but would that be hard-coded since > there is no variable in poky.yaml.in that relates to that. Right, I think we could hold this value next to MIN_RAM and MIN_DISK_SPACE,= so we keep all of them in sync. I think we should add MIN_CPU_CORES in a patch, then use this value next to where MIN_DISK_SPACE and MIN_RAM are used in the docs. Thanks, Antonin