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

[Tamás Gérczei]

Hey Benda and List,

Just a kinda off-topic remark: the tarball You link to isn't a bzip2
archive despite its name. It's a simple tarball - hence the step-by-step
HOWTO fails.

Regards,
Tamás


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:59 AM, <heroxbd@×××××.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>