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Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@g.o> writes: |
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> There are images available for this, btw, if you want to see how it |
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> works and poke around. I'd seen some repositories, but don't know if |
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> there's enough public to do your own build. |
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I am very interested in such an image. Would you please dig out a link |
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for me? I searched the web in vain. |
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>> As a natual consequence of the on-going Google Summer of Code project, |
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>> Gentoo on Android[3], we can run native Gentoo on *all* the Android |
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>> devices. Compiling out an Xorg and output to HDMI has no theoretical |
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>> difficulty. Furthermore, sharing of graphic output with Android (instead |
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>> of a separate HDMI output) can be explored with wayland x11[4]. |
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> There are a lot of _hard_ problems here (display, audio, input, |
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> codecs), not to even begin on proper policy integration (your phone is |
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> hooked up, voice call starts, what do you do). |
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Yes, you're right. |
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> That's not to discourage your effort at all - I think it's great that |
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> you're kicking this off and that there is so much enthusiasm for this. |
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> I look forward to seeing the solutions that emerge to solve all of |
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> these, and am happy to offer to test on a device or two. |
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I'd make it incremental, by releasing only a full Gentoo environment |
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(Gentoo RAP) as the first step. Then base on that, gather forces to |
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attack the hard(-ware) problems you mentioned. |
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Cheers, |
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