From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bootstrappable@freelists.org
Subject: Re: wip-full-source-bootstrap: from a 357-byte `hex0' to 'hello'
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:48:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YA8Sd/mVTs0yDo+F@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9brbbtm.fsf@ngyro.com>
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 03:19:49PM -0500, Timothy Sample wrote:
> Hi janneke,
>
> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > I have reset Guix' wip-full-source-bootstrap branch with a first working
> > implementation of the, well, "Full Source Bootstrap" for x86-linux (and
> > x86_64-linux). This bootstrap is rooted in the 357-byte hex0-seed from
> > the Stage0 project (https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/stage0).
>
> The dream is alive! Congratulations on this big leap forward!
>
> > When you look at the bottom of the graph (see attached), you will notice
> > "%bootstrap-guile": the driver that we use for the Guix build and also
> > for "bootar", "gash", and "gash-utils". This "%bootstrap-guile" is not
> > used as a seed in anything that is built, "%bootstrap-guile", "bootar",
> > "gash", and "gash-utils" could be replaced with any other driver.
>
> I never mentioned it, but a few months ago I took a little look at
> porting Gash & friends to Mes. The big issue that I ran into is that
> Mes doesn’t really have a module system. My plan was to build up Mes
> modules and strip down Gash requirements until they met in the middle.
> Sometime (probably not worth derailing this thread right now) we should
> discuss what needs to be done for Mes modules. (It looked like
> something I could do with a little guidance on the design.)
>
> > XXX TODO:
> > * wip-full-source-bootstrap
> > [...]
> > * wip-arm-bootstrap
> > - finish; currently stuck on gawk-mesboot0
> > [...]
>
> It looks like you’ve made a lot of progress on this already (judging by
> the rest of this thread). However, if it helps, the current Gash-Utils
> awk could _probably_ be used to skip most (all?) of the old versions of
> Gawk.
>
> Sorry I can’t be more helpful ATM. I appreciate the work you do to keep
> this project rolling!
>
Using this post as inspiration I replaced diffutils-mesboot with
gash-utils-boot. diffutils-mesboot provided cmp and diff, both of which
are available in gash-utils. Unfortunately sed from gash-utils-boot
didn't seem to work so I wasn't able to remove that.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-04 17:01 wip-full-source-bootstrap: from a 357-byte `hex0' to 'hello' Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-05 0:49 ` [bootstrappable] " jeremiah
2021-01-05 16:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2021-01-06 11:32 ` [bootstrappable] " Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-06 11:46 ` [bootstrappable] " Andrius Štikonas via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2021-01-06 14:03 ` Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2021-01-14 21:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-15 1:27 ` jeremiah
2021-01-21 11:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-21 17:52 ` Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2021-01-28 13:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-28 13:44 ` Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2021-01-06 14:38 ` [bootstrappable] " Paul Sherwood
2021-01-07 10:43 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-07 20:10 ` [bootstrappable] " Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-07 20:23 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-07 22:52 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-08 6:25 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-08 8:05 ` [Tinycc-devel] " arnold
2021-01-08 13:02 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-08 13:43 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-08 14:07 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-08 16:15 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-08 18:56 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-08 21:11 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-08 22:13 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-08 7:16 ` [Tinycc-devel] " grischka
2021-01-08 13:25 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-08 13:36 ` [bootstrappable] Re: [Tinycc-devel] " Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2021-01-08 15:16 ` [Tinycc-devel] [bootstrappable] " Vincent Lefevre
2021-01-08 16:12 ` [Tinycc-devel] [bootstrappable] " Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-25 22:47 ` ARM Unified Assembly Language - GNU as does some weird stuff Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-25 23:12 ` [bootstrappable] " Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
2021-01-26 1:14 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-01-08 0:29 ` wip-full-source-bootstrap: from a 357-byte `hex0' to 'hello' Jan Wielkiewicz
2021-01-20 20:19 ` Timothy Sample
2021-01-25 18:48 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2021-01-29 7:23 ` [bootstrappable] " Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-01-29 10:18 ` andrius--- via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2021-01-29 16:02 ` Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
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