Same as Chromium OS, openFyde adopts the Portage build and packaging system from Gentoo Linux. openFyde uses Portage with certain customisations to support building multiple targets (bootable OS system images) across different hardware architectures from a shared set of sources.
A board defines a target type, it can be either for a family of hardware devices or specifically for one type of device. For example, The board amd64-openfyde is a target type for an openFyde system image that aims to run on most recent PCs with amd64(x86_64) architecture; whilst the rpi4-openfyde board is a target type specifically for the infamous single-board computer Raspberry Pi 4B. We usually append -openfyde to the board name in openFyde to differentiate between its siblings for FydeOS.
Each board has a corresponding overlay that defines the configuration for it. This includes details like CPU architecture, kernel configuration, as well as additional packages and USE flags.
This repository is the overlay for the amd64-openfyde_apu board, it's part of the openFyde open-source project.
This repository contains the following packages:
| Packages | Description | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| chromeos-base/device-appid | Setup device appid | |
| virtual/fydeos-board-spec | Virtual for fydeos board setup | |
| virtual/opengles | Virtual for OpenGLES implementations | chromiumos-overlay |
| virtual/vulkan-icd | Virtual for presence of a Vulkan ICD (Installable Client Driver) | chromiumos-overlay |
This board targets a generically bootable openFyde image on most x86_64 PC devices with AMD Radeon™ graphics, specifically, the device should have the following characteristics:
- For PCs with Intel-powered CPU:
- Intel CPUs released on or after the year 2011, specifically, Intel 2nd generation Core™ Processors "Sandy Bridge" and later
- Discrete AMD Radeon GPU (@TODO: add detailed compatibility status per List of AMD graphics processing units)
- For PCs with AMD-powered CPU and GPU:
- AMD Ryzen Processors with Radeon Vega Graphics
- AMD accelerated processing units (@TODO: add detailed compatibility status per List of AMD accelerated processing units)
amd64-openfyde_apu is the foundation for FydeOS for PC - AMD GPU release.