On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 22:20 +0200, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 15:46, Mark Hatle <mark.ha...@windriver.com> > wrote: > > Looking at what my customers are doing, I completely agree. I look > > at the > > design criteria for my customer's devices and I'm seeing 256MB as > > -very- common. > > More happens, but it's rare still. (But I have some customers > > with GB of ram, > > but that is usually to support their application, but the base > > system!) > > > > (Note, I do have customers -with- graphics requirements [X11] that > > are in the > > 128/256 MB ram ranges. In most cases OpenGL is something they > > would like, but I > > don't believe it's a hard requirement for them.) > > > > I do still have many customers with 128 MB of ram requirements. So > > it's > > important for us to set a reasonable baseline (256MB). So going > > under this > > requires 'work', but I think that is acceptable. > > For contrast, in the kind of system I am helping to develop > everything is measured in gigabytes. RAM should be in the ballpark of > 10Gb. Disk storage maybe 10x that. OpenGL is at the foundation of > display output and isn't optional in any way. There's basically every > connectivity option enabled, multiple cameras, touchscreens and > whatnot. The whole thing will eventually look not that far from iOS > in terms of UI and capabilities and containerized 3rd party apps > (except it *also* needs to support multiple screens and multiple > users). And yes, it's all pulled together through bitbake and a zoo > of layers, images and target configurations. Yocto is able to target > cases like this, which is amazing - hopefully this clears up a bit > where I am coming from in this, even if it's a 'minority' position.
I don't think its a minority and there are people who have both kinds of system, sometimes in the same build. We just need to be mindful we have a spectrum of target users and low RAM is one part of that matrix. I want the project to support the larger use cases too. Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
