gentoo-on-rpi-64bit | Bootable 64-bit Gentoo image

gentoo-on-rpi-64bit is a Shell library typically used in Internet of Things (IoT), Raspberry Pi applications. gentoo-on-rpi-64bit has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has medium support. You can download it from GitHub.

This project is a bootable, microSD card 64-bit Gentoo image for the Raspberry Pi 4 model B, 3 model B and 3 model B+ single board computers (SBC). The image's userland contains a complete (OpenRC-based) Gentoo system (including a full Portage tree) - so you can run emerge operations immediately - and has been pre-populated with a reasonable package set (Xfce v4.14, LibreOffice v6.4.4.2, Firefox Quantum v77.0.1, Chromium v84.0.4147.30, Thunderbird v68.9.0, VLC v3.0.10-r1, Kodi v18.7.1, GIMP v2.10.18-r1 etc.) so that you can get productive without having to compile anything first! Unless you want to, of course; this being Gentoo, GCC v10.1.0, Clang v10.0.0, IcedTea v3.16.0 (OpenJDK 8), Go v1.14.4, Rust v1.44.0 and various versions of Python are of course bundled also ^-^ As of version 1.2.0 of the image, all userland software has been built under Gentoo's 17.0 profile, and, as of version 1.5.0 of the image, the new RPi4 Model B is also supported (and to reflect this, the project itself has been renamed, from gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit to gentoo-on-rpi-64bit ^-^). The kernel and userland are both 64-bit (arm64/aarch64), and support for the Pi's VC4 GPU (VC6 on the Pi4) has been included (using vc4-fkms-v3d / Mesa), so rendering performance is reasonable (e.g., glxgears between 400 and 1200fps, depending on load and system type; real-time video playback). The Pi's onboard Ethernet, WiFi (dual-band on the RPi3 B+ / Pi4 B) and Bluetooth adaptors are supported, as is the official 7" touchscreen (if you have one). Sound works too, both via HDMI (given an appropriate display), and the onboard headphone jack. As of version 1.1.0 of the image, a weekly-autobuild binhost, custom Gentoo profile, and binary kernel package have been provided, making it relatively painless to keep your system up-to-date (and, because of this, genup has been configured to run automatically once per week, by default). As of version 1.4.0 of the image, access to the RPi3's hardware video codecs (and camera module, if you have one) is supported too, via the V4L2 framework, and, as of version 1.5.0, these features are available on the RPi4 also. Additionally, on the RPi4, the use of dual monitors is supported (but not required) as of version 1.5.0 (as is accelerated graphics, via V3D / Mesa). And, there is no 3GiB 'memory ceiling' anymore: if you are fortunate enough to own a 8GiB Pi4, all 8GiB of that RAM is usable. As of 1.5.2, 64-bit MMAL userland is supported (and used by bundled tools like raspivid), as is automated update of the RPi4's onboard EEPROM firmware. And finally, as of 1.6.0, rpi-5.4.y kernels are supported, the FOSS Jitsi videoconferencing server is bundled, and elogind is used in place of consolekit.