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To: Timothy Sample References: <260d2ed2-2af6-73f0-be62-27d25098bef2@gmail.com> <87o8kbg9uq.fsf@ngyro.com> From: Jesse Gibbons Message-ID: <9c3b2968-c0dc-317d-8ce2-418c3a52f4bd@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 07:43:34 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/78.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87o8kbg9uq.fsf@ngyro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::102b; envelope-from=jgibbons2357@gmail.com; helo=mail-pj1-x102b.google.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: No matching host in p0f cache. That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-guix@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" X-Scanner: ns3122888.ip-94-23-21.eu Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20161025 header.b=MQ3TyuIU; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of help-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=help-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Spam-Score: -0.71 X-TUID: AtWlK0rhJIIH On 11/5/20 7:24 AM, Timothy Sample wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > Jesse Gibbons writes: > >> Has anyone in this mailing list successfully used the Guix system on >> an armhf or aarch64 computer? > I don’t have a lot of details for you, but I can confirm that I’ve used > Guix on three armhf boards: BeagleBone Black, veyron_speedy (ASUS C201), > and veyron_minnie (ASUS C100PA). > > For the BeagleBone, it required using an older version of U-Boot. > Upstream U-Boot has stopped supporting it. Our package patches support > back in, but it didn’t work for me. I believe I’ve tried to use Guix on > it three times and only succeeded once. If you have a BeagleBone Black > and want to use Guix, let me know. I could track down my notes and see > if I can still produce a usable image. > > For the Veyron boards, it is starting to work quite well. The current > version of U-Boot can boot these boards, but you can also boot U-Boot > from the stock firmware (which is Depthcharge). This is needed because > the Guix initial RAM disk is too big for Depthcharge to boot directly. > > The point I’m trying to make is that Guix can be made to work on armhf, > but it is not at all smooth sailing. There are usually one or two > things that need fixing before it will work. IME, we are close to > having a decent experience, but we’re definitely not there yet. The > saving grace is that Guix makes working on these things pretty painless. > > > -- Tim Thank you for the response. I am trying to install guix to a banana pi m2u. I know armbian isn't officially supporting it, one of the two armbian images I found fails to boot, and IINM there is no link from the manufacturer's website to an operating system more recent than 2017. I'll see if I need to use an older version of u-boot like you did for BeagleBone Black. -Jesse