From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GuixSD and free hardware
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:01:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twpqdcpb.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8rjusbn.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 16 Oct 2015 10:32:28 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hello!
>
> Gammel Holte <gammel.holte@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I would like to draw your attention to new Rockchip ARM machines (e.g. Asus
>> C201). These are very cheap, easy to reflash and can be run without any
>> blobs (except 3D acceleration, unless the Lima driver gets finished). They
>> don't even need CPU microcdes. Paul Kocialkowski (of Replicant fame)
>> recently added Libreboot support to the C201 [1].
>>
>> In my opinion, it'd be really nice to have GuixSD polished on this
>> architecture, so that users can buy one and get things going with minimal
>> effort. Sort of a few reference devices like what BSD does with some
>> Thinkpads. If running linux-libre, and wishing to have libreboot as a
>> bootloader, there are not that many choices.
>
> I think many of us are interested in having GuixSD on those devices.
>
> Mark recently ported GuixSD to mips, which allowed him to identify
> architecture-specific assumptions need to be addressed. That was an
> important first step.
>
> There’s also the question of whether we can use GRUB on these platforms,
> since GuixSD pretty much relies on it. Latest GRUB reportedly works on
> (some) ARM platforms:
> <https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/GRUB>.
If I understand correctly, GRUB has been ported to the 'arm-uboot'
platform, but not yet 'arm-coreboot'.
> It would be good to see if GRUB can be used as the LibreBoot payload on
> the C201, as a replacement for ‘depthcharge’.
I guess this won't be possible until either GRUB is ported to
'arm-coreboot', or u-boot is ported to the C201.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-16 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-15 20:04 GuixSD and free hardware Gammel Holte
2015-10-15 21:51 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2015-10-15 23:30 ` Leo Famulari
2015-10-15 23:33 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-10-16 8:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-16 11:48 ` Gammel Holte
2015-10-16 8:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-16 11:44 ` Gammel Holte
2015-10-16 16:01 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2015-10-23 6:28 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-10-18 14:55 ` Pjotr Prins
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