From: Lilah Tascheter <lilah@lunabee.space>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space>
Subject: Re: [RFC] proposal for refactoring bootloaders
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:33:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <118b8271dc53b5d0e5f245fac57181fed0db86da.camel@lunabee.space> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cf16a155c1742eff056fc1dc3e0c31366e677ba.camel@lunabee.space>
one more quick change that I've realized will be necessary: add a
bootloader-targets field to boot-parameters. some bootloaders would
need target info to know where to install config files, and
reinstall-bootloader doesn't have access to the operating-system
record. rollbacks to generations pre-field addition shouldn't be an
issue with this either, as existing bootloaders (sans depthcharge?) do
just fine without targets.
all in all, bootloader-installer and bootloader-config-file-installer
would be procedures that return gexps, with the following signatures:
* (installer entries #:key bootcfg mount-offset generation old-entries
store-crypto-devices store-directory-prefix locale)
* (config-file-installer entries #:key package targets mount-offset
generation old-entries store-crypto-devices store-directory-prefix
locale)
mount-offset is the current target, and old-entries becomes an alist with
generation numbers.
- lilah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-16 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-15 7:28 [RFC] proposal for refactoring bootloaders Lilah Tascheter
2024-02-16 8:33 ` Lilah Tascheter [this message]
2024-02-19 10:18 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-02-24 1:27 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
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