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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:36:05 +0200
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Subject: Re: [docs] how should one update "dual, six-core Xeons"?
From: "Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>, "YP docs mailing list"
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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_SPACE; di=
sk
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 obso=
lete
in the future.

Thanks!
Antonin