On Monday, 28 August 2017 16:23:24 BST W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting uhmgawa <[email protected]>: > > On 08/28/2017 08:46 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > >> As long as you have enough flash memory (some hundreds of MiB) and RAM > >> (at least 64 MiB, better 128 MiB), Debian runs fine on such hardware > >> in my experience. It depends on your applications, of course. > > > > Available flash is from 32~64MB depending on platform. So manual subset > > of the distro id required and where recurring the effort enters the > > picture. > OK, then Debian is probably not an option. I doubt, that one can strip down > Debian 9 to 32 MiB... Has anybody tried? Have you looked at the now remerged OpenWRT/LEDE? They support lots of little systems like this, and I think several are armel.
David > > >> Debian is supposed to be the "universal operating system". I.e. it is for > >> server + workstation + embedded + whatever. This is different from most > >> other Linux distributions. > > > > I applaud that goal. But the approach of using a native arch build > > vehicle > > for the distro also introduces complication for embedded class > > development. > > Not insurmountable but additional compared to the cross-build approach > > typical of embedded linux distros. > > The native build requirement is only affecting Debian itself, not its users > (people deriving the distribution for their needs or building appliances). > In my company, we always cross-build our .deb packages for ARM. We do this > also, if we need to recompile official Debian packages (local backports or > patched packages). We don't have any armel hardware, that would be fun to > build packages with.
