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From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
To: Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix on the MNT Reform
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 06:36:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210907063652.697bd4e3@primarylaptop.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtordcqq.fsf@dustycloud.org>

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On Sat, 04 Sep 2021 21:31:08 -0400
Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:

> So we probably want to make a u-boot-mnt-reform in
> gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm
The issue is that the I.MX8 requires a nonfree firmware for the DDR4
controller.

If you grep for firmware-imx in the u-boot source code you will find
mentions of it in the READMEs documentation for many I.MX8 boards.

So that firmware probably need to be reimplemented as free software
somehow.

Alternatively there are some new system on module (SOM) boards that are
also compatible with the MNT Reform[1] that might at least boot with
free software.

I've also started documenting the MNT reform on a Liberplanet wiki
page[2] but it's really a draft at this point.

References:
-----------
[1]https://community.mnt.re/t/ideas-for-processors-for-mnt-reform/237
[2]https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/research/laptop/Mnt_Reform

Denis.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07  4:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-08 15:06 Guix on the MNT Reform Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-05-08 18:19 ` Simon Josefsson
2020-05-09 13:03   ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-05-08 18:30 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2020-05-08 18:52 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-05-08 19:16   ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-08 20:44 ` John Soo
2020-09-02 22:22 ` Andreas Enge
2020-09-13 14:10   ` Andreas Enge
2020-09-15  3:23     ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-08-17 17:24 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-08-17 23:49   ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-09-05  1:31     ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-06 17:07       ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-06 19:37         ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-09-06 20:50           ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-06 23:59             ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-09-07  1:13               ` Fredrik Salomonsson
2021-09-07  4:36       ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli [this message]
2021-09-07 18:18         ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-07 20:07           ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-09-08 10:32             ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-08 16:47               ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-09-08 18:10                 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-09 14:10                 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2021-09-08 18:08               ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-08-18  0:36 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-08-29 19:10   ` Joshua Branson
2021-08-29 21:38   ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-08-29 23:27     ` Joshua Branson
2021-08-30  9:02     ` Jonathan McHugh

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