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Subject: Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:37:27 +0100
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Hello,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:21:54 +0100
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
>
>> Hi, attached is a draft for a blog post (or a section in the cookbook)
>> for explaining how to install the Guix System on an ARM board. WDYT?
>
> I guess it can't hurt to describe this stuff as it works now, but the goa=
l is not
> to need to do any of this complicated stuff--and there's no fundamental r=
eason
> why one would have to.  There are projects like buildroot which have all =
the
> u-boot configuration (and more--like the partitioning, which also can som=
etimes
> have funny requirements, for example on Allwinner) that Guix could import=
 to
> generically install Guix on any ARM board.
> Eventually there will be an importer for those.

Perhaps the closing could link to the work you=E2=80=99ve started in this a=
rea
and to explain the goals?

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=3Dwip-buildroot
  (Was there also a mailing list thread on this topic?)

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.