From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Cc: 29281@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29281] [PATCH] system: vm: Use linux-libre for system-disk-image.
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:23:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vaiev5mu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgjazex2.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:49:45 +0100")
Hello,
Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:
>> What was the use case and rationale for you?
>
> The problematic use case was to try to produce a GuixSD arm installer
> for beaglebone black. The kernel linux-libre-arm-omap2plus I'm planning
> to use can't be used in qemu.
Oh, why is that? You mean qemu-system-arm running natively on the BBB,
right?
> Plus, I'd like to use a raw-initrd because linux-libre-arm-omap2plus is
> quite a light kernel configuration. As system-disk-image asks for
> base-initrd, the required modules won't be find during image
> construction with omap kernel.
Perhaps we should change ‘system-disk-image’ to use a more minimalistic
initrd since all it needs is those virtio* drivers?
Thanks for explaining!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-13 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-13 7:22 [bug#29281] [PATCH] system: vm: Use linux-libre for system-disk-image Mathieu Othacehe
2017-11-13 9:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-13 9:49 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-11-13 10:23 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-11-13 10:47 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-11-13 10:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-13 11:54 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2017-11-13 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-13 14:21 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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