Running Gentoo Linux on mobile phones ?

jonfr · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1008 Location: Denmark

Does anyone know if it is possible to run Gentoo Linux on a mobile phone. The phone that I have in mind is the SonyEricsson X1 type. But from SonyEricsson it runs Windows mobile and I am no fan of the mess that windows really is. So I want to replace it with Gentoo Linux when I buy the phone sometimes next year possible.

mardicas · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject:

I dont think gentoo is a good choice for a mobile device.
The compiling of programs would be a pain in the a** and gentoo is not ment for something like that, it is to big imho.
Check out the familiar project.
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ddc · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2006 Posts: 521

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

first check if the linux kernel was ported to your mobile phone...then if yes you could install linux but...
normaly someone would think that given that there are cross-toolchain,uclibc profiles etc...it woud be doable to install gentoo on a mobile phone but it's not the case because the cross-toolchains in gentoo don't handle the cross-compilation well:
for instance i wanted to cross-compile weechat for arm but as the compilation depends on running tests it failled...
openembedded,and scratchbox can handle this...prefer open embeded in order to build a full distro...