From: Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de>
To: phodina@protonmail.com
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: U-Boot for Raspberry Pi
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 00:09:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2907A11C-DF13-469F-A0EC-CA70ABAC61B0@vodafonemail.de> (raw)
Hi!
There is already a patch series available since May – patiently awaiting a review –, which brings support for the Raspberry Pi. It even supports booting via NFS, which helps to avoid all the common troubles with microSD cards.
For the usual mircoSD card installation just partition and format it as usual, and put the well known bootloader blob on the FAT partition. Then do a ‘guix system init config.scm /mnt/microsd’. The patch series contains an example configuration at ‘gnu/system/examples/raspberry-pi-64.tmpl’.
Take a look here: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/48314#10>
In hope to get more attention and interest for a review, allow me to add two side notes.
Ever in need for a Guix System on an USB thump drive? Give the new ‘grub-efi-netboot-removable-bootloader’ a try instead of ‘grub-efi-bootloader’. It is not only usable for booting over network.
Ever in need to quickly modify the kernel Linux? Give the new function ‘modify-linux’ a try. For the Raspberry this is needed to get the kernel linux-libre working. (By the way, would Guix System be the first distribution using a libre kernel on the Raspberry?)
For example to enable NFS root functionality for virtual machines, use a kernel definition like this in your operating-system definition:
(kernel (modify-linux #:configs '("CONFIG_E1000=y"
"CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y"
"CONFIG_NFS_FS=y"
"CONFIG_NFS_V4=y")))
Bye
Stefan
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-31 23:09 Stefan [this message]
2021-11-02 11:00 ` U-Boot for Raspberry Pi phodina
2021-11-02 13:24 ` Stefan
2022-02-16 15:55 ` Reza Alizadeh Majd
2022-02-18 23:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-21 11:08 ` Reza Alizadeh Majd
2022-02-21 11:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-22 7:36 ` Reza Alizadeh Majd
2022-02-22 8:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-22 9:05 ` Vincent Legoll
2022-02-22 9:07 ` Vincent Legoll
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2021-10-30 21:39 phodina via
2021-10-30 22:05 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-10-31 6:47 ` phodina
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