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by swiley 3172 days ago
>Unfortunately it will never be that simple. First, the distro you want would need to have an ARM port targeting the same version of ARM SoC in the phone. ARM isn't like x86 with just two targets (32 bit and 64 bit), it's a quagmire.

People say this a lot but that's not my experience. I have a lot of ARM machines and move binaries and complete distros (sans kernel) between them all the time without recompiling. Everything after ARMv7 is pretty well behaved.