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Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 round 1 of N

Vendor: Samsung

Device: Galaxy Watch 5

Released: May 9, 2025

This source candidate was received after exercising an offer for source that was provided for the device.

Comments

Micah Williams — May 13, 2025, 5:35 a.m.
The inital tarball included separate .zip and README files for both the Kernel and Platform components. Unfortunately, I was unable to proceed with serious testing of either component due to the extraordinary system requirements.

Specifically:

- The Platform build requires 500+ GB of storage
- The Kernel toolchain, according to its README, requires 400 GB of storage and a minimum of 64 GB of RAM

These requirements significantly exceed the resources available on my system and I would imagine might also be challenging for most standard development environments.

My assumption is that these are more in-line with the expectations of enterprise-grade hardware or specialized build environments, not a typical development environment.

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