Gentoo on Pinebook Pro RELEASE

[misha64]

Great resource for Gentoo users.

Does it take a long time to compile OS + kernel + DE? Meaning from usability point, if regular 2-4-weekly update takes more than 1 day to compile (of course excluding browsers)?


Unrelated, is there a way to make this set-up more/fully FLOSS?:

Gentoo is great by giving option ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE" in make.conf

But those binaries are needed:

BCM4345C5.hcd
fw_bcm43456c5_ag.bin
brcmfmac43456-sdio.clm_blob
dptx.bin

First three are for wifi/BT - could be skipped while using USB wifi, right?

While is dptx.bin critical for machine operation, or only for usb-c video out?

Are there any other binary blobs that I'm not aware of?

Finally, manjaro kernel is used. Is this kernel baked with proprietary firmware binaries, or firmware is installed separately as a package (as in Gentoo sources) - making ideal case so no need to install linux-libre or deblob kernel by yourself


Thanks a lot