Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce <gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo on Android stage3
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 18:00:15
Message-Id: 87pomj42fv.fsf@gentoo.org
1 Hi Fellows,
2
3 This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball,
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5 http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz
6
7 snapshot from the latest main Gentoo repository, featuring gcc-5.4,
8 glibc-2.23, and the latest prefix-standalone (aka. RAP) profiles[1].
9
10 The tarball runs Gentoo natively[2] under /data/gentoo (:=EPREFIX[3,4])
11 on a rooted[5] android device newer than 2011 or armv7a[6], alongside
12 the Android stack.
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14 The installation guide is at
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16 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball
17
18 with a list of tested devices at
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20 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Android/Devices
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22
23 Next we are going to build a normal-user version, and to manage Android
24 kernels with portage[7].
25
26 Time to unleash the mobile power with Gentoo.
27
28 Enjoy,
29 Benda
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31 1. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/772326d735c8c7c469beffc0a9bb0b97
32 2. No chroot or PRoot
33 3. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Technical_Documentation#EPREFIX_variable
34 4. https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-12100011.1.3
35 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_%28Android_OS%29
36 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv7-A_cores
37 7. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android
38 8. Previous announcement:
39 https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/890e3e40977a37bb499fb02d35efe74a