@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ following requirements:
much more will help to run multiple builds and increase
performance by reusing build artifacts.
+- At least &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM, though a modern modern build host with as
+ much RAM and as many CPU cores as possible is strongly recommended to
+ maximize build performance.
+
- Runs a supported Linux distribution (i.e. recent releases of Fedora,
openSUSE, CentOS, Debian, or Ubuntu). For a list of Linux
distributions that support the Yocto Project, see the
@@ -48,3 +48,7 @@ MIN_GCC_VERSION : "7.5"
MIN_MAKE_VERSION : "4.0"
# Disk space (Gbytes) needed to generate qemux86-64 core-image-sato on Ubuntu 22.04 (x86-64), rounded up from 87
MIN_DISK_SPACE : "90"
+# Disk space (Gbytes) needed to generate qemux86-64 core-image-sato on Ubuntu 22.04 (x86-64) with "rm_work", rounded up from 38
+MIN_DISK_SPACE_RM_WORK : "40"
+# RAM (Gbytes) needed to generate qemux86-64 core-image-sato on Ubuntu 22.04 (x86-64) on a 4 core system
+MIN_RAM : "8"
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ to run multiple builds and to cache build artifacts, improving build efficiency.
If you have a shortage of disk space, see the ":doc:`/dev-manual/disk-space`"
section of the Development Tasks Manual.
+.. _system-requirements-minimum-ram:
+
+Minimum System RAM
+==================
+
+You will manage to build an image such as ``core-image-sato`` for the
+``qemux86-64`` machine with as little as &MIN_RAM; Gbytes of RAM on an old
+system with 4 CPU cores, but your builds will be much faster on a system with
+as much RAM and as many CPU cores as possible.
+
.. _detailed-supported-distros:
Supported Linux Distributions