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On 29/10/16 16:14, M. J. Everitt wrote: |
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> On 29/10/16 16:09, Benda Xu wrote: |
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>> Hi Fellows, |
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>> This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball, |
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>> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz |
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>> snapshot from the latest main Gentoo repository, featuring gcc-5.4, |
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>> glibc-2.23, and the latest prefix-standalone (aka. RAP) profiles[1]. |
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>> |
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>> The tarball runs Gentoo natively[2] under /data/gentoo (:=EPREFIX[3,4]) |
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>> on a rooted[5] android device newer than 2011 or armv7a[6], alongside |
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>> the Android stack. |
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>> The installation guide is at |
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>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball |
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>> with a list of tested devices at |
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>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Android/Devices |
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>> Next we are going to build a normal-user version, and to manage Android |
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>> kernels with portage[7]. |
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>> Time to unleash the mobile power with Gentoo. |
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>> Enjoy, |
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>> Benda |
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>> 1. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/772326d735c8c7c469beffc0a9bb0b97 |
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>> 2. No chroot or PRoot |
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>> 3. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Technical_Documentation#EPREFIX_variable |
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>> 4. https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-12100011.1.3 |
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>> 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_%28Android_OS%29 |
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>> 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv7-A_cores |
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>> 7. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android |
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>> 8. Previous announcement: |
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>> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/890e3e40977a37bb499fb02d35efe74a |
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> COOL ! I'll have to give this a try .. got an old(er) Samsung Galaxy S4 |
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> Active, and I'm currently using the Huawei Nexus 6P .. |
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> Keep up the good work! :D |
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> MJE |
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Actually .. given my nosiness in -pr matters lately, anyone done a |
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write-up for Planet.g.o or suchlike that we can post up to social media? |
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From my own stand-point it might be something the wider community would |
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be interested in, and didn't know was a 'thing'? |
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MJE |
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