Hello, On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:07 AM Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > Specifically about armhf, if anybody wants to use it with Guix, I hope > they will speak up.
I am interested, I have tried, and failed to get anything (apart from guix on foreign armbian). But I am more interested in guixsd though. I even attempted building the pinebook pro image without success. > I think we should monitor the volume of substitute requests per platform > and see how big the demand for armhf Guix really is. With the current situation, I'm not sure this would really be representative of the armhf or arm64 demand. > Although there is a huge amount of armhf hardware deployed, Guix seems a > very poor fit for it. In its current state. > There is almost no armhf hardware that is suitable > for a build-from-source distro in terms of performance, thermal design > and suitable storage (SD cards will not last for unless you pay a huge > amount for the absolute highest quality). Binary distros like Trisquel > are a much better option for armhf. The cross buildability *should* be kind of a solution for this. > All that is not a reason to not support armhf, but if nobody is using > it, then we should officially deprecate it, and not leave it in this > in-between state. I'm not using it because I can't make it work. -- Vincent Legoll