01-25-2021, 05:35 AM
(10-06-2020, 06:37 AM)bingch Wrote: Got my pinephone convergence version a couple weeks ago, so I decide to see how it goes with gentoo installed on it, I created the pinephone specific packges in my local ebuild repository ( https://gitlab.com/bingch/gentoo-overlay.git ) from various sources and finally I got gentoo running on it.
It turns out pinephone is quite usable as a normal linux desktop too, I installed gdm on it and hooked it up with an external monitor and mouse and keyboard, then launched gnome wayland session, running firefox, watching youtube etc inside gnome shell is quite smooth
bingch,
I have been following your git overlay for the Pinephone and I have a few questions for you. Is there anyway to compile Gentoo on the device itself as I have no computer currently running Gentoo (I use mostly ARM based workstations)? I understand that this would take a considerably longer amount of time. I've been trying to use the Aarch-minimal bootable SD image as it includes the newer gcc-10.2 and most of the packages for needed for building Gentoo/P-Boot etc. Thanks in advance for any tips you can give me and all your work on the repository.
