Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > Well, that would be a different approach, but I imagine you could > build for prefix-style install using something like Catalyst and > cross-compile. I have no idea how much tweaking that would require. > The main issue is that unless you use qemu you're only going to get > one pass. If you are going to use qemu then you could just build it > all in an emulator and copy it over.
qemu-user with binfmt on a powerful workstation was my option, until I actually tried it out (around 2013). It was much slower (5x? 10x?) than running native on a phone. Not sure if the emulation of qemu-user significantly improved over the years. > You definitely could create a squashfs of /usr/portage and then just > mount that on your phone. You could also nfs mount it I suppose, or > use something like iSCSI (you might need kernel modules for both). Or > use something like sshfs. I've also used a compressed ram filesystem > for this purpose in the past (basically like a tmpfs only compressed, > often used as a high-priority swap). > > And of course if you can spare the RAM you can build in tmpfs. > > So, there are definitely some "easy" options though some of them will > cost performance. Indeed. Nice hints. Actually we have zram documented in our wiki[1]. > Another option might be USB OTG. I think the 6P supports that with > the right drivers. As long as it isn't noexec I'd think you could > install Prefix on that. Nexus should have no problem. The only paranoid vendor was Samsung with a subset of their products. Benda 1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Asus_Transformer_Infinity_%28TF700T%29/Install#RAM_and_SWAP_considerations
