[brucehoult]

I love my little $5 duos! 64 MB RAM is actually enough to run emacs and gcc right on the board itself for programs you write yourself -- it's as much RAM as we had on PCs and Macs, as standard, as recently as 1998 or so, and that was on 200 or 300 MHz machines, slower than a 1 GHz Duo (even allowing for them being mild superscalar/OoO). Not to mention my SPARC ELC and SGO Indy, both of which have 64 MB RAM (and 33 and 166 MHz CPUs respectively. Those used to be serious machines!

With the standard Buildroot image you need to statically link things, but you don't have to build specially in many cases .. for example just copy qemu-arm-static, qemu-x86_64-static etc over from a standard RISC-V distro and they run fine on the Duo.