Re: Guix Social today - Bootstrapping RISC-V talk by Ekaitz

[Steve George <steve@futurile.net>]

Hi!

Ekaitz gave a great talk about trust and the boostrap problem. And did a bit of Q&A on his future plans, along with the what it's like being sponsored to do this sort of work. The video is published:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7DyiRqWBk

If you'd like to see his slides they're available here: https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/bootstrapGcc16.html

Enjoy it!

Futurile / Steve


On 17 Sep, Steve George wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The next Guix Social is today, Tuesday, with a talk by Ekaitz Zarraga on bootstrapping RISC-V. Times:
> 
>   17:00 UTC, 18:00 BST (London), 19:00 CEST (Paris), 13:00 EDT (New York)
> 
> Link to join:
> 
>   https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup
> 
> The bootstrapping problem is that many OS's can't build themselves from source. Somewhere in the chain there is a compiler binary that was created at a previous point in history. The impact on security and trust is that we can't assure ourselves that the platform hasn't been backdoored [0]. Ekaitz and many others have been working on bringing up RISC-V with a full source bootstrap for the last couple of years. In this talk he'll introduce RISC-V, the bootstrap problem and talk about the journey to a full source bootstrap in Guix.
> 
> If you'd like to be notified about **future meetups** you can subscribe to the Wiki or to the Meet-up:
> 
>   https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024
> 
>   https://www.meetup.com/guix-london/events/303448758/
> 
> Hope to see you there!
> 
> Steve / Futurile
> 
> [0] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/
>