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From: Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
To: Pavel Shlyak <p.shlyak@pantherx.org>, 55806@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55806: gnu/system/install.scm includes (service uvesafb-service-type) in %installation-services on all architectures
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:28:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czflx6o0.fsf@jpoiret.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E6B1081-25F4-4357-ADBE-3161A2FA5960@pantherx.org>

Hi,
Pavel Shlyak <p.shlyak@pantherx.org> writes:

> Reproducer:
> guix system image -t iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm
> This command fails on aarch64 host. It doesn’t if I manually remove uvesafb-service-type from the list. It is impossible(and not needed) to run uvesafb on non-x86 machines at the moment, so I think it should be included only in x86_64 (and probably 32bit x86 as well) builds.

I can definitely write a patch for that, it won't be worse that what we
have right now.  I wonder how we could handle the case when there's no
KMS for a particular hardware combination (if that's possible), since
kmscon requires that.  FTR, we require kmscon to be able to display
non-latin fonts such as CJK or arabic in the installer.

Now that I think about it, if we have a hard requirement on KMS, we
could just use a lightweight wayland compositor like cage to display the
installer, which would likely simplify the process since we'd have more
"usual" tools at our disposal.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret




  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-06 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-05 12:20 bug#55806: gnu/system/install.scm includes (service uvesafb-service-type) in %installation-services on all architectures Pavel Shlyak
2022-06-06 13:28 ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix [this message]
2022-06-06 14:16   ` bug#55806: [PATCH] gnu: install: Add uvesafb service only on targets that support v86d Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-06 16:09     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-06-06 17:15       ` Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-07 10:50         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-06-07 11:05           ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)

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