• corl Gentoo Overlay
  • Usage
    • The manual way
    • The eselect way
  • Armbian sources

corl Gentoo Overlay

My personal Gentoo overlay for packages I need that are not in Gentoo or stuff I want to test.

This is a eselect-autogen repository and the ebuild's are auto generated from the definitions in the git submodule under the autogen folder.

Usage

The manual way

Create the /etc/portage/repos.conf/corl.conf file as follows:

[corl]
priority = 50
location = /var/db/repos/corl
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://www.cor.za.net/code/cor/portage-overlay.git
auto-sync = Yes

Then run emerge --sync corl to use.

The eselect way

In a root terminal on a system with app-eselect/eselect-repository installed run:

eselect repository add corl git https://www.cor.za.net/code/cor/portage-overlay.git

Then run emerge --sync corl to use.

Armbian sources

This is the main reason I started this project, to get Gentoo running on Arm embedded boards. By installing virtual/armbian with your cpu enabled in it's use flags, should install a workable kernel and u-boot with all the patches as used by armbian applied and the instructions in elog messages to set it up.

Apart from the RK3588 thru the Collabora project and custom installation instructions, armbian patches are the only way I found to get Rockhip boards booting with a modern kernel that could be maintained in Gentoo.

The patches are pulled with a script from the armbian tagged releases and added to the gentoo-sources kernel, ATF and u-boot. This might break on itself if something changes. I only tested on a Firefly ROC-3399-PC Plus and a Radxa ROCK 5B board.

If a board supported by armbian is not working it should be easy to fix, just open an issue.