I only made these changes for Jessie but the commit can probably be cherry-picked if desired.

The readme already says:

Plus any of the following that apply...

• For EV3 or Beaglebone kernel:

sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools lzop gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-5.2

So adding it again just one line above that seems a bit redundant.

The kernel doesn't use floating point at all, so we don't get illegal instructions. Vendors haven't released a toolchain really suitable for EV3 since 2014 or so.

Suggestion to use --depth is good idea.

Ah, that makes a bit more sense; I didn't notice that EV3 was included with BB. What do you think about separating it into three individual commands with all the prereqs for each platform to make it obvious? The way I read it was that the default set of packages was listed in the large block, and then if you needed one of the other two you should replace the command with the following one.

You are the first person I know of to miss it. 😉

I don't really care if it is separated. I think the lzop is only needed for BeagleBone and not EV3. The other packages are used by both.

I'm happy to be the low bar for testing worst-case scenario 😛