Guix Social today - Bootstrapping RISC-V talk by Ekaitz

[Steve George <steve@futurile.net>]

Hi all,

The next Guix Social is today, Tuesday, with a talk by Ekaitz Zarraga on bootstrapping RISC-V. Times:

  17:00 UTC, 18:00 BST (London), 19:00 CEST (Paris), 13:00 EDT (New York)

Link to join:

  https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup

The bootstrapping problem is that many OS's can't build themselves from source. Somewhere in the chain there is a compiler binary that was created at a previous point in history. The impact on security and trust is that we can't assure ourselves that the platform hasn't been backdoored [0]. Ekaitz and many others have been working on bringing up RISC-V with a full source bootstrap for the last couple of years. In this talk he'll introduce RISC-V, the bootstrap problem and talk about the journey to a full source bootstrap in Guix.

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Hope to see you there!

Steve / Futurile

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/