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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes: |
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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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qemu-user with binfmt on a powerful workstation was my option, until I |
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actually tried it out (around 2013). It was much slower (5x? 10x?) than |
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running native on a phone. Not sure if the emulation of qemu-user |
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significantly improved over the years. |
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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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Indeed. Nice hints. Actually we have zram documented in our wiki[1]. |
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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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Nexus should have no problem. The only paranoid vendor was Samsung |
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with a subset of their products. |
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Benda |
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1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Asus_Transformer_Infinity_%28TF700T%29/Install#RAM_and_SWAP_considerations |
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