GuixSD and free hardware

[Gammel Holte <gammel.holte@gmail.com>]

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Hello everyone,

as a user, I've joined Guix due to technical reasons (functional package
management in Scheme) and focus on freedom (linux-libre kernel, etc). I
guess many people here share these values.

Freedom ultimately depends on the underlying hardware too. My goal is to do
all my computing on devices that respect my freedom. Right now, this is
mostly possible using rather old machines (e.g., MacBook 2,1 or Nokia N900)
which bothers me a bit (hardware is slow and increasingly hard to buy).

I would like to draw your attention to new Rockchip ARM machines (e.g. Asus
C201). These are very cheap, easy to reflash and can be run without any
blobs (except 3D acceleration, unless the Lima driver gets finished). They
don't even need CPU microcdes. Paul Kocialkowski (of Replicant fame)
recently added Libreboot support to the C201 [1].

In my opinion, it'd be really nice to have GuixSD polished on this
architecture, so that users can buy one and get things going with minimal
effort. Sort of a few reference devices like what BSD does with some
Thinkpads. If running linux-libre, and wishing to have libreboot as a
bootloader, there are not that many choices.

There are also 2 devices (yet to be released) that might be fantastic to
get GuixSD running on mobile phones: DragonBox Pyra [2] and Neo900 [3].

Cheers.

[1] http://www.libreboot.org/docs/hcl/c201.html
[2] https://boards.openpandora.org/pyramain/main/
[3] http://neo900.org/

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