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Welcome to the gentoo-on-rpi-64bit wiki!

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Instructions, Tips and Tricks

• Set Up your Gentoo PC for Cross-Compilation with crossdev
  • Build an RPi4 64bit Kernel on your crossdev PC
  • Build an RPi3 64bit Kernel on your crossdev PC
  • Set Up your crossdev PC for Distributed Compilation with distcc
    • Set Up your RPi as a distcc Client
• Running 32 bit Raspbian Packages on your 64 bit Gentoo System
• Build aarch64 Packages on your PC, with User-Mode QEMU and binfmt_misc
• Effective Benchmarking on your 64 bit RPi System
• Create a Slimmed Down Version of the Image
• Improve Swap Perfomance on your RPi
• Run Another OS on your RPi as a Virtualized QEMU Guest under KVM
  • Adding a GUI to your QEMU KVM Guest OS
• Run a Remote VNC Desktop on your RPi
• Access your RPi's Desktop Remotely from a Windows Box via RDP
• Using the RPi's Video Codecs and Camera Module
• Setup a Simple X11 Desktop Environment on the Lite Image
• Install Flatpak Applications on your RPi
• Set Up Dual Displays on your RPi4
• Booting from a Hard Disk
  • Tweaking Hard Disk settings
• Using tmux
• Adding a logo to the ssh login
• Setting up WIFI using nmcli
• Setting up a simple Samba Share
• Build an RPi4 64bit Kernel on the RPi
• Setting up Systemd
• Docker - Setup
  • Docker - Using Portainer
  • Docker - Deployment and docker compose
  • Docker - Basic Commands Example
  • Docker - Running multiple daemons

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