Re: Porting GuixSD to ARM article.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> writes:

>> We could ship the generic ARM image, let the user use
>> qemu-system-arm to boot it and set up the correct u-boot in
>> there, and only then write it to SD card.
>>
>> There could even be a small part in the wip-installer-2
>> that asks you which u-boot you want and set that up.
>>
>> I'm just trying to prevent Hydra from building ~1000 huge disk images
>> with minimal differences in the future... :)
>
> I agree a single ARMv7 would be better too :) On that point, NixOS seem
> to provide a generic image an gives the instructions to write the
> bootloader afterwards for every target:
>
> https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM
>
> and here,
>
> https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/BeagleBone_Black
>
> I'm not found of this approach as it requires more manual steps but we
> could maybe try the same thing.
>
> What do other people think ?

Can we automate these steps so that we have only a single image but
customized loader scripts per target?

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Ricardo

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