Re: wip blog post: running Guix System on ARM

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:21:54 +0100
> Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> 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 goal is 
> not
> to need to do any of this complicated stuff--and there's no fundamental reason
> 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 
> sometimes
> 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’ve started in this area
and to explain the goals?

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

Thanks,
Ludo’.