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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: GuixSD on the SoftIron OverDrive 1000 (AArch64)
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 14:29:01 +0200
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To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
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Hi,

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=E2=80=99t.  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 =E2=80=9C,bournish=E2=80=9D helps a bit, but it=E2=80=99s true that f=
iddling with this
from the Guile prompt is a bit, ahem, unusual.  :-)

>> =C2=B9 https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/aarch64-build-machines-do=
nated/
>
> So...is there an opportunity for someone to start looking at a Reduced
> Binary Seed boostrap for AArch64?

I think it=E2=80=99s a worthy goal!

On IRC earlier today Vagrant mentioned that the Pinebook AArch64 laptop
(see <https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3D3707>) 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=E2=80=99.