Re: GuixSD on AArch64

[Ludovic Courtès]

Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 2018-10-22, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> On IRC earlier today Vagrant mentioned that the Pinebook AArch64 laptop
>> (see <https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707>) should be able to run
>> GuixSD when Linux-libre 4.19 and U-Boot 2018.11 are out, with 100% free
>> software.  That may give another incentive to work on AArch64.
>
> Looking like u-boot 2019.01 might be more likely, but modest patches
> work with 2018.11-rc2. I'll probably bring the pinebook with me to the
> Paris meetup in December... though with only 2GB of ram it might not
> make the most exciting GuixSD system... :)

Well, I know there’s still some way to go (in particular wrt. the Guile
compiler memory consumption), but we should aim to make Guix usable on
such systems.

> Very similar is the free open-source hardware Teres-I from olimex:
>
>   https://www.olimex.com/Products/DIY-Laptop/
>
> ... Which is just a kit with all the parts you assemble yourself!

Looks like a lot of fun!

Ludo’.