Guix with U-Boot

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:28:31 +0200
David Craven <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your suggestions. I pushed the packages.
> 
> Is there a git repo somewhere I can pull your uboot stuff from? I'd
> like to test it =) 

There's no such repo right now.

I'd prefer merging into master soon to creating a fork.

For what it's worth, the changes I sent to the mailing list were tested on my 
machines, including that the Grub support still works.

If merging is deemed too risky, would it be possible to create a "wip-u-boot" 
branch on Savannah instead? - it seems that is how these bigger changes are 
handled. Then I could push the U-Boot parts there.

I've attached the UNFINISHED u-boot-install program which installs the U-Boot 
bootloader (comparable to grub-install). I plan to upstream it into the U-Boot 
main repository eventually. The other parts required for u-boot support were 
all already posted to our mailing list here.

gnu/packages/u-boot.scm could be merged now - it shouldn't affect anything 
because it's unused by master.

Other than that, it's mostly renaming "grub" -> "bootloader" in the Guix main 
source code that it creating a massive amount of noise in the patches I sent 
before. The actual functional change is a small part.

> I'm interested in starting a riscv port of guixsd at some point.

Nice! I think RISC-V is quite important to have.

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