From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk@grrlz.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interest check: U-Boot bootloader support
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:01:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87povo8w0k.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb5giupe.fsf@grrlz.net>
Nils Gillmann writes:
> Jookia <166291@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I brought up this topic a long time ago and as since have been thinking about
>> this, reading the code base and getting accustomed to it. I've had the intention
>> of porting GuixSD to use the U-Boot bootloader, which I think can be done
>> without much if any changes to the user-facing configuration.
>>
>> I'm willing to do the refactor and programming required, but I'm sensing it's
>> not wanted given the investment in keeping GuixSD using GNU tools for the base
>> system and the fact GRUB is being ported to ARM (though this is buggy at best.)
>> The only thing U-Boot support brings to the table is that it works and can be
>> used to boot Linux on an ARM system. The only hindrance compared to GRUB is that
>> it doesn't support encrypted partitions, so unencrypted /boot support will need
>> to be added.
>>
>> If there's no interest in having U-Boot support in Guix and upstreamed, I'd
>> rather not waste effort on writing these patches. No hard feelings!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jookia.
>>
>
> Similar to what I said in private, I think GuixSD has only things
> to gain from the added support. When it does arrive in GRUB, the
> workaround can be changed then.
> For now, it would be a great thing to have in GuixSD.
If we would like to also be able to deploy Guix to mobile devices, this
could really be great. I'm sure a number of us would like to imagine a
world in which we can run Guix and more a GNU-ish type environment in
userspace on our mobile computers (how I miss my Nokia N900!)
How complex do you think it would be?
- Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-22 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-20 20:43 Interest check: U-Boot bootloader support Jookia
2016-02-21 15:29 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-22 16:19 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-02-22 18:01 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-02-22 18:42 ` Nils Gillmann
2016-02-22 19:19 ` Guix on Mobile (Was: Interest check: U-Boot bootloader support) Jookia
2016-02-22 20:17 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-02-22 20:28 ` Leo Famulari
2016-02-22 20:29 ` Jookia
2016-02-22 21:12 ` Andreas Enge
2016-02-23 11:14 ` Interest check: U-Boot bootloader support Ludovic Courtès
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