From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Lilah Tascheter <lilah@lunabee.space>,
guix-devel@gnu.org, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>,
Christopher Baines <guix@cbaines.net>,
Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>,
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>,
Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Subject: Re: Call for testers for bootloader subsystem rewrite!
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:17:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZroncF68T1yptKKn@pbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mslhbytc.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 04:28:15PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Lilah,
>
> Lilah Tascheter <lilah@lunabee.space> skribis:
>
> > I just submitted a patchset containing a full rewrite of Guix's
> > bootloader subsystem, as in its current state, it was only really meant
> > to support GRUB. Seeing as we support a large variety of bootloaders,
> > and a bug in this subsystem could be disasterous, I figured I'd ask for
> > testers here.
> >
> > So, anyone willing to throw an experimental patchset at some
> > (recoverable!) hardware, please test it out and tell me any issues you
> > encounter!
> >
> > Link on the issue tracker: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72457
>
> Just to let you know that I flagged this patch set a while ago already:
> I think this is much needed and looks like a step in the right
> direction, but I just haven’t allocated time to review it yet.
> Apologies!
>
> Could someone from the embedded or core teams (Cc’d) give a hand?
I'm currently traveling and won't be back home with my other devices
until the beginning of September. In the meantime I can see about making
sure that grub-efi on a pinebook-pro works fine since I can boot that
from an SD card.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-04 4:09 Call for testers for bootloader subsystem rewrite! Lilah Tascheter
2024-08-12 14:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-08-12 15:17 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
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