Re: [gentoo-soc] Weekly Report: Portage Powered Android

[Gunwant Jain]

On 20/07/14 08:17AM, Benda Xu wrote:
> Gunwant Jain <therealgunwant@×××××.com> writes:
>
> > Like I mentioned in my previous off-timed weekly report, I had been
> > working on studying Android's Build Process this week.
> >
> > I have published a blog [1] regarding the same (most of it is just
> > confirmed workflows). I also laid a plan on how to approach building
> > Android on aarch64 host.
>
> That's an excellent write-up.

Thanks !

> > The next two weeks will be focused on that. I will be setting up an
> > ARM based VPS.
>
> What kind of VPS are you planning to set up?

I don't know actually, I was looking for AWS's EC2 A1
    https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/a1/
but then I realised that the credits which we get from Github's Student
Pack are for _AWS Educate_. AWS does offer a free tier variant, but it
only provides credits worth 30$ at the moment.

> > Once we are through with natively compiling Android, I plan to
> > separate LLVM/Clang toolchain along with Bionic from the AOSP
> > codebase, Bionic here being the tricky part.
>
> Good.
>
> Benda

Regards,
Gunwant