[gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo on Android stage3

[gentoo-dev-announce] Gentoo on Android stage3

[Benda Xu]

Hi Fellows,

This is an announcement of the latest Gentoo on Android stage3 tarball,

  http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/rap/rap-stage3-armv7a_hardfp-20161026.tar.xz

snapshot from the latest main Gentoo repository, featuring gcc-5.4,
glibc-2.23, and the latest prefix-standalone (aka. RAP) profiles[1].

The tarball runs Gentoo natively[2] under /data/gentoo (:=EPREFIX[3,4])
on a rooted[5] android device newer than 2011 or armv7a[6], alongside
the Android stack.

The installation guide is at

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android/tarball

with a list of tested devices at

  https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Android/Devices


Next we are going to build a normal-user version, and to manage Android
kernels with portage[7].

Time to unleash the mobile power with Gentoo.

Enjoy,
Benda

1. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/772326d735c8c7c469beffc0a9bb0b97
2. No chroot or PRoot
3. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix/Technical_Documentation#EPREFIX_variable
4. https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-12100011.1.3
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_%28Android_OS%29
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv7-A_cores
7. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android
8. Previous announcement:
   https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/890e3e40977a37bb499fb02d35efe74a