Re: GuixSD install, bootable on multiple architectures

2018-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Nathan Dehnel skribis: > I had an idea for an operating system that is portable across CPU > architectures. [...] > This would for example allow you to install GuixSD for x86, then, by > setting an option in your package manager, install a set of PowerPC > packages in parallel, and

GuixSD install, bootable on multiple architectures

2018-10-01 Thread Nathan Dehnel
I had an idea for an operating system that is portable across CPU architectures. You would have a set of bootloaders for each architecture (let's say, x86 and PowerPC). The x86 bootloader would be stored in the EFI partition, and the PowerPC bootloader would be stored in the OpenFirmware