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On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (+ Ludo and Danny) > > Hi Luke and Eric, > >> great! let's take a look... >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg00515.html >> ha! looks like someone's been working on porting GuixSD to ARM >> already. it shouuuld be an extremely straightforward task if you're > > Yes Danny has been involved in the GuixSD bootloader serie too. I guess > he would be interested in a pre-production unit too. i've only got around six or seven available of the 2.7.4 units, or thereabouts. i need to keep two, one as a backup in case one gets damaged (it happens). one way round that would be to use a VPN (i run one), set up the unit at one location and rsync packages over to it for testing in a chroot environment on the card. it'll... need a little coordination :) or, i could in theory set up one of the two i need to keep hold of here in TW and leave it switched on 24x7? > I'm currently working on porting GuixSD on a BBB and have almost > succeded to boot it. So porting EOMA68-A20 should only consist in picking > the right kernel/u-boot as you stated. yehyeh. the way i do different OSes is simply replace the root filesystem partition on pre-existing micro-sd cards. i'll make sure to include something (debian/testing armhf most likely - just don't do "apt-get update" on it as it will pull in a shed-load of stuff that's been done over the past... 2, 2.5 years) l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
