Re: [gentoo-soc] Re: GSOC - Portage powered Android

[EBo]

On Feb 22 2020 5:10 PM, Benda Xu wrote:
> Hi EBo,
>
> EBo <ebo@×××××××.com> writes:
>
>> I'm not a current student, but a former GSOC student and later
>> mentor.
>> Am I getting this correctly, that an Android portage repository will
>> be set up?  That would be so cool!
>
> That's the ultimate goal of Gentoo Android project.  I hope we could
> achieve it.   Thank you :)

Sweet!  As a note, I was an early adopter of Gentoo back in grad school 
(circa 11/2001), and Gentoo has been my primary distro since.  About the 
only thing I have not installed it on yet is a Raspberry Pi -- and 
recently started working on that to support some rebuilds of several CNC 
machines.  All of that requires PREEMPT-RT or other kernels like Xenomai 
or RTLinux.  I would encourage folks to investigate the RT kernels which 
could allow better control of some of the devices.

I already have to many projects going on offer to beta-test or help 
review, but I definitely look forward to following the progress.  That 
said I would be very interested in seeing how folks support base 
hardware for all the thousands of phone variants to set up device 
configuration support out of the box.   One of the things that has 
always driven me crazy is getting a new machine initially configured -- 
figuring out all the kernel and make config options for the new hardware 
-- even when it is an old workhorse.  Is there some way to set up 
canonical configs to switch between a Galaxy-S3, Pixel-4, iPhone-5...  
Who knows, if you get the platform set up to bounce around easily I 
might try to actually make a fantasy I have of building a Android 
controlled CNC treadle lathe (complete with a steampunked LCARs 
interface ;-)

Anyway, best of success, and I look forward to following the progress.

   EBo --