From: "Jonathan Marsden" <jmarsden@fastmail.fm>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another Raspberry Pi data point
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:34:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5abdc-9a36-4821-af8f-54ac68adfa0d@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YCSTEJnzu1Xw6gMB@jasmine.lan>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, at 20:14, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:06:06PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
>> I had no success with building a vm or disk image - a build would take hours
>> and then fail trying to assemble the boot subsystem, seemingly having
>> switched to x86 architecture. ...
> Hm, that's a bug :/
Just knowing that is useful info! I wasn't sure if it was "supposed" to work.
I have not found a list of which aarch64 SBC boards Guix System is supposed
to work on. I'd love to see such a list, if one exists. Even better If it includes
links to a sample working operating system definition file for each board!
>> My eventual aim was to try and create lxc/lxd containers via guix, but step
>> 1 of that was to get a VM working. I shall have another attempt in a few
>> weeks. Part of my problem may just be that I am unfamiliar with arm boot
>> setups.
> It might help if you shared the config.scm you used for creating your vm
> images.
My attempt (which had a similar-seeming issue) was included at the end of
my earlier message to this list, to which Richard is responding. It is at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2021-02/msg00031.html and
the scm file is at the end of the message.
>> So - as of the start of 2021, on top of a foreign distro Guix works fine on
>> a Raspberry Pi. If you are reading by the end of 2021 I suspect it will work
>> in any of the scenarios described in the docs.
> Let's make it happen!
Yes! So how can we help get there from here? In the meantime, I have seen
a response on Reddit in r/guix which pointed me to some (late 2020) work at
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44543 by Stefan and by Danny Milosavljevic, which
is specific to Raspberry Pi booting. A known working complete example
operating system definition file for a Raspberry Pi, and any workarounds it
needs (such as manually copying in a binary bootloader "blob"?) would be
*really* helpful. Is anyone able to share one on the list (or in that "issue")?
Many thanks, I am encouraged to see others interested in getting Guix System
working on the Raspberry Pi!
Jonathan
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Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@fastmail.fm>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-11 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-10 21:06 Another Raspberry Pi data point Richard Huxton
2021-02-11 2:14 ` Leo Famulari
2021-02-11 4:34 ` Jonathan Marsden [this message]
2021-02-11 21:21 ` Leo Famulari
2021-02-12 1:24 ` Jonathan Marsden
2021-02-12 2:19 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-02-12 5:12 ` EDK2 support Was: " raingloom
2021-02-15 10:02 ` Efraim Flashner
2021-02-15 10:06 ` Efraim Flashner
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