[gentoo-alt] Re: desktop experience on smartphone: thoughts and plans

Dear Egg Plant,

I will make one reply, to the gentoo-alt list.

Egg Plant <egg.plant@××××××××××.com> writes:

> You may take a look at the "libhybris" project. It's being used by the
> Sailfish OS & probably Ubuntu in future. Now some Intel developers are
> also showing interest in it and is being integrated with Wayland.
>
> https://github.com/libhybris/libhybris
> https://github.com/stskeeps/libhybris
>
> -->sourcecode present & previous
>
> http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/04/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html
> http://mer-project.blogspot.fi/2013/05/wayland-utilizing-android-gpu-drivers.html
> -->Carsten Munk's posting, he is the original developer & now the
> Chief Research Engineer in Jolla, which develop Sailfish OS.
>
> http://www.merproject.org/
> https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Main_Page
> -->Mer project & its wiki. It works as backend of several OS under development for embeded devices.
>
> http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/04/08/libhybris-let-you-use-android-drivers-hw-libraries-in-linux/
> -->some more info
>
> https://launchpad.net/libhybris
> -->"libhybris" at Canonical Ubuntu
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_%28software%29
> -->The wikipedia article seems a little confusing.
>
> [DISCLAIMER: I have very little knowledge about programming & kernel,
> so may be I am associating wrong projects with your project. I am in
> any way not associated with the above mentioned sites & projects.]

Thanks a lot for these pointers. I have browsed it through.

I am sure the graphics of Gentoo on Android needs to depend on hybris
and wayland. But the details are not there yet.

Right now we only have a functional base Gentoo available on Android
devices.

> Waiting for your success... to reach my Android device!! I mean your
> project... ;-)

Take a look at the project page at 

     http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android

You are more than welcomed to test it out on your device.

> I think it will be better if there is a sticky in the Gentoo
> Discussion Forums under "Gentoo on Alternative Architectures" on
> "Gentoo on Android".

To update the status regularly?

> Or, is their any dedicated mailing list to discuss problems
> encountered in using this project?

> Or, it will be Bugzilla & IRC only as of now?

No, I just hang around gentoo-{dev,alt}, and use official Gentoo
bugzilla.

Therefore all the development activities are found in Gentoo
infrastructure.

> May be I am thinking too fast!

> Please enlighten me, if you get some time from your busy life. :)

Just get a Gentoo on your Android device as a starting point.

There is absolutely no code for graphics yet. It would be super cool if
you would like to contribute to it.

Cheers,
Benda