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* Run GuixSD on Raspberry pi
@ 2019-10-23 13:32 Farshid Karimi
  2019-10-23 18:54 ` Vagrant Cascadian
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From: Farshid Karimi @ 2019-10-23 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-guix

Hello
I know that could install guix as a package manager on armhf
architecture.Including raspberry pi board.
But is there any way to install guixsd image on raspberry pi?
I saw the gnu/system/install.scm and there is some little board that
supported by it.
Regards.

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* Re: Run GuixSD on Raspberry pi
  2019-10-23 13:32 Run GuixSD on Raspberry pi Farshid Karimi
@ 2019-10-23 18:54 ` Vagrant Cascadian
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Vagrant Cascadian @ 2019-10-23 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Farshid Karimi, help-guix

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On 2019-10-23, Farshid Karimi wrote:
> I know that could install guix as a package manager on armhf
> architecture.Including raspberry pi board.
> But is there any way to install guixsd image on raspberry pi?
> I saw the gnu/system/install.scm and there is some little board that
> supported by it.

If you treat the non-free boot firmware like people treat BIOS/EFI on
x86 systems, and leave it up to the end-user to set that up, it's
probably technically possible.

There may be some drivers that require non-free firmware (e.g. wireless)
that will not work with Guix's linux-libre kernel.

The two options I see would be to add support for the boot configuration
used by the raspberry pi firmware, or for a little more flexible option,
configure the raspberry pi firmware to load u-boot and then use the
existing infrastructure to generate u-boot configuration files.

Since there's at least one major non-free component involved, I'm not
quite sure how it all sits with following the FSDG:

  https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

Though, one could treat that like BIOS/EFI on x86...


live well,
  vagrant

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