From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45674) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEBuR-0003gm-RJ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:24:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEBuM-0007I3-P5 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:24:07 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:57291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eEBuM-0007Hz-Lc for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:24:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eEBuM-0007bV-DG for guix-patches@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:24:02 -0500 Subject: [bug#29281] [PATCH] system: vm: Use linux-libre for system-disk-image. Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <20171113072236.13270-1-m.othacehe@gmail.com> <87o9o6bjsw.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgjazex2.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:23:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87lgjazex2.fsf@gmail.com> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:49:45 +0100") Message-ID: <87vaiev5mu.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Mathieu Othacehe Cc: 29281@debbugs.gnu.org Hello, Mathieu Othacehe 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 =E2=80=98system-disk-image=E2=80=99 to use a more = minimalistic initrd since all it needs is those virtio* drivers? Thanks for explaining! Ludo=E2=80=99.