Re: GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 (AArch64)

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi,

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:

[...]

>> On the first boot, the GuixSD activation snippets fail while trying to
>> install /etc, /etc/pam.d, and /etc/skel, and /etc/ssl because these
>> directories already exist (from openSuSE) whereas GuixSD assumes that
>> they don’t.  The solution is just to remove/rename them from the Guile
>> initrd REPL.  Once this is done, booting proceeds flawlessly and
>> happiness ensues.
>
> We could do with a more powerful REPL ;-)

Using “,bournish” helps a bit, but it’s true that fiddling with this
from the Guile prompt is a bit, ahem, unusual.  :-)

>> ¹ https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/aarch64-build-machines-donated/
>
> So...is there an opportunity for someone to start looking at a Reduced
> Binary Seed boostrap for AArch64?

I think it’s a worthy goal!

On IRC earlier today Vagrant mentioned that the Pinebook AArch64 laptop
(see <https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707>) should be able to run
GuixSD when Linux-libre 4.19 and U-Boot 2018.11 are out, with 100% free
software.  That may give another incentive to work on AArch64.

Ludo’.