Re: Call for testers for bootloader subsystem rewrite!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Lilah,

Lilah Tascheter <lilah@lunabee.space> skribis:

> I just submitted a patchset containing a full rewrite of Guix's
> bootloader subsystem, as in its current state, it was only really meant
> to support GRUB. Seeing as we support a large variety of bootloaders,
> and a bug in this subsystem could be disasterous, I figured I'd ask for
> testers here.
>
> So, anyone willing to throw an experimental patchset at some
> (recoverable!) hardware, please test it out and tell me any issues you
> encounter!
>
> Link on the issue tracker: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72457

Just to let you know that I flagged this patch set a while ago already:
I think this is much needed and looks like a step in the right
direction, but I just haven’t allocated time to review it yet.
Apologies!

Could someone from the embedded or core teams (Cc’d) give a hand?

Thanks,
Ludo’.