Re: Make a riscv iso for Guix

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 05:39:00PM -0800, R wrote:
>> It would be nice to have a fully libre distro for riscv cpus.
>
> I agree!
>
> My initial look into it suggested that, like armhf and aarch64, we'd
> need a separate image for each riscv64 board.  I eventually found this¹
> page for installing Debian on the StarFive VisionFive1 board (limited
> run, poorly supported upstream), which suggested that the vendor u-boot
> image should be able to load an EFI image and boot that way.
>
> Playing with this is high on my todo list.
>
> ¹ https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/StarFive/VisionFiveV1

Guix too has such a Visionfive image but for V2.  It works, although
last time `guix pull` failed for me, but I believe pull randomly
succeeds on some days.

https://guix.gnu.org/download/latest/

Regards,
Florian