[Arm-dev] Getting started / Build machines

[Robert Moskowitz]

Other than my posts, this list has been quite since Jul 3rd.  Is there 
any activity on putting together builds as were mentioned that day?

On 07/03/2014 09:33 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 4GB of RAM is the biggest limitation. What I tend to do is attach a
> decent, large SSD (LibreOffice needs nearly 40GB to build!!!) to each
> builder, set up tons of swap (say, 8GB per core), and run as many
> build threads as there are cores in the machine. That tends to yield
> optimal hardware saturation even if some packages insist on building
> single-threaded.

I moved all of the July posts into Thunderbird so I could read them 
better.  And it seems that it might be beyond my minimal ablities.

My Cubieboard 2 is an Allwinner A20 duo core with 1GB memory.  I have a 
16GB SD for the OS for now.  It does have a real SATA2 interface to put 
a notebook sata drive on.  I have a few 320GB drives I can use.

The F19 build uses the Sunxi 3.4 kernel.

I will attempt to do a 'yum update --exclude=kern*' and I do have a few 
things to install (eg tigervnc-server).