From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: Interest check: U-Boot bootloader support Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:01:15 -0800 Message-ID: <87povo8w0k.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <20160220204325.GA16645@novena-choice-citizen.lan> <87vb5giupe.fsf@grrlz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42836) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXunR-0000C7-U3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXunN-0008GV-SI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:21 -0500 Received: from dustycloud.org ([2600:3c02::f03c:91ff:feae:cb51]:54928) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXunN-0008Fh-Ls for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:01:17 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vb5giupe.fsf@grrlz.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nils Gillmann Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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