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On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:42 AM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> On 29/10/16 16:35, Benda Xu wrote: |
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>> No SD slot on Nexus. We will stress the internal NAND flash with |
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>> millions of ebuilds and rsync :) |
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>> That makes me think of squashdelta sync, but probably after gaining |
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>> control of linux kernels to manage the squashfs module. |
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> Completely out of my depth here, but can you cross-compile and is there |
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> some way of leveraging the USB-C connection on the Nexus 6P .. or are we |
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> talking super-complex then?! |
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Well, that would be a different approach, but I imagine you could |
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build for prefix-style install using something like Catalyst and |
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cross-compile. I have no idea how much tweaking that would require. |
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The main issue is that unless you use qemu you're only going to get |
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one pass. If you are going to use qemu then you could just build it |
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all in an emulator and copy it over. |
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You definitely could create a squashfs of /usr/portage and then just |
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mount that on your phone. You could also nfs mount it I suppose, or |
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use something like iSCSI (you might need kernel modules for both). Or |
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use something like sshfs. I've also used a compressed ram filesystem |
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for this purpose in the past (basically like a tmpfs only compressed, |
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often used as a high-priority swap). |
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And of course if you can spare the RAM you can build in tmpfs. |
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So, there are definitely some "easy" options though some of them will |
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cost performance. |
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Another option might be USB OTG. I think the 6P supports that with |
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the right drivers. As long as it isn't noexec I'd think you could |
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install Prefix on that. |
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