Hi Paul and friends on -devel, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes:
> Please take a look > these pages: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile > https://postmarketos.org/ I would like to append the list with https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android and a project "portage-powered android" under Gentoo GSOC2018, https://jsteward.moe/gsoc-2018-final-report.html . We are still half way from our final goal to completely decouple Android into a set of manageable Gentoo packages and to make smartphones no different from personal computers. But several milestones have been achieved. Our student Pengcheng Xu has gained complete control of the android/lineage system by putting it into an LXC jail managed by Gentoo natively on the phone, while keeping Android fully functional. We have also accumulated first-hand hacking experience with the Android's brand-new build system soong/blueprint and successfully built Android bionic-libc independently by a Gentoo package[1]. The Debian Multi-Arch makes running arm64-linux-gnu and arm64-linux-bionic side-to-side straight forward and will facicitate potential integration between the two userlands. The considerations for hacking on Android are 1. Android is the operating system with the biggest user base. Hacking it can effectively bridge the mobile world with GNU/Linux distributions. 2. Android consists mostly with free software under the Apache 2.0 license. It is only Google inventing a lot of new wheels that caused us not familiar with it. 3. The problems of vendor binary blobs are no worse than the non-free firmware Debian and Gentoo are shipping. 4. The outdated linux kernel problem can only be solved once GNU/Linux hackers start to hack Android. Only we care about it the most! 5. Gentoo/Android should not be much different from Gentoo/FreeBSD. It is slightly different for the case of Debian/kFreeBSD, but you get it idea: we have achieved similar goals before. If that resonate with you, cool! Let's ignore the difference between Debian and Gentoo at this moment, as the distance between the two is an epsilon compared to that between Android and either Debian or Gentoo. Cheers, Benda 1. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/android.git/tree/sys-libs/bionic/bionic-8.1.0_p41.ebuild?id=6d90db7ab26624f1ed93eb3172666d39df316e3e
