Can straight
Gentoo ARM be used on the Pandora? I mean, straight Gentoo with no porting. Some extra drivers, obviously, and perhaps a patch here or there, but for the most part can pure Gentoo survive?
I don't expect the users of this forum to answer, by the way. This is more or less directed at the crew behind the Awesome Device We All Love And Adore Ever So Dearly (also known as ADWALAAESD).
I love Gentoo - it's a great distro. But do you really want to compile EVERYTHING for your Pandora ON the device itself? It's not powerful enough for Gentoo to be a good distro for it. You'd have to wait days to get the dependencies and everything compiled and installed.
EDIT: Read your post a bit better. Would Gentoo work at all? Sure. You're still using the same Linux kernel as you would be if you were running Debian. Also, since you'd be compiling the software for your device on the device itself, you'd know that the programs would be compiled for the right architecture. Have fun setting up the correct build environment though. (-march/-mcpu, CHOST, CFLAGS, the other make.conf stuff, configuring and compiling the kernel, etc.)
That's not a problem, you can always use
Distcc and use big powerful machines as slaves for Pandora
I'm a Gentoo user and would love to use it on Pandora. Are there more Gentoo users interested in Pandora? We could create a Gentoo-Pandora overlay and then put that upcoming scene productions out there (being open-source or not, binary only packages will have "-bin" prefix)
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distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is usually much faster than a local compile.
distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files installed. They can even have different processors or operating systems, if cross-compilers are installed.