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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s), linux-embedded@vger list
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:49:32 +0200
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In message <87a5b0800806100625m5a6d20dao47b884bff663c24c@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
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> I'm not convinced it matters at all. Self hosting on an embedded
> architecture is, as has been mentioned, pretty pointless.

YMMV...

> system. For example I don't think I'll ever be able to self host a
> kernel build on a board with only 32Mb of on-board RAM.

It depends. We've done this on board with as little as 16 MB RAM.

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Wolfgang Denk

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