From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Jul 17 12:48:12 2022 Received: (at 48314) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Jul 2022 16:48:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48429 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oD7RD-0000RZ-RF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:48:12 -0400 Received: from mr6.vodafonemail.de ([145.253.228.166]:45166) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oD7R9-0000QJ-0l for 48314@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:48:10 -0400 Received: from smtp.vodafone.de (unknown [10.0.0.2]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mr6.vodafonemail.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Lm9y83M4cz1xr2; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:48:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=vodafonemail.de; s=vfde-mb-mr2-21dec; t=1658076480; bh=KgXm98wsCHaKDyNZ+lCPhEs+uCpg7v8RscfDP4iVz/g=; h=Content-Type:Subject:From:In-Reply-To:Date:Message-Id:References: To:X-Mailer:From; b=XJUbUUsmZ83EGPfJBRz7zgHkYv4/7H6Yq70cl3mbUnGRbGiZbVm5qlkO/q2FJHBk3 sLqr3BdDoyg44/ssQhEFSDutB2aDS9D6FVLj17PJOzPO0IDH2jJ0FgqrkkXywIqkSK FLiN55saorBMBUb2FuJPOfH7QIUU8pTZGTsSX5hc= Received: from smtpclient.apple (aftr-62-216-210-100.dynamic.mnet-online.de [62.216.210.100]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.vodafone.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4Lm9xy6zgbz9v2R; Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3696.100.31\)) Subject: Re: [bug#48314] Patches to install guix system on Raspberry Pi From: Stefan In-Reply-To: <87czn4aq2s.fsf@ponder> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:47:47 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20210619211026.5eb44073@scratchpost.org> <897B7FF7-24C1-4B96-8441-415596267E99@vodafonemail.de> <87czn4aq2s.fsf@ponder> To: Vagrant Cascadian X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3696.100.31) X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate: clean X-purgate-size: 1713 X-purgate-ID: 155817::1658076480-C6602208-C4C81094/0/0 X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 48314 Cc: Stefan , Danny Milosavljevic , 48314@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Hi Vagrant! > The u-boot-rpi-0-w and u-boot-rpi variants are ARMv6 boards, and = Guix's armhf baseline is ARMv7, so those won't work with guix system. Uups. I will remove them. > In other words, keep names consistent with the upstream defconfig they = are based on. OK > I presume you didn't add the aarch64 rpi_3 and rpi_4 variants because = they are supported by rpi_arm64? Yes. > I think without addressing the rest of the patch series, adding to = guix master the following packages could make the remaining diff = smaller: >=20 > u-boot-rpi-2 (rpi_2_defconfig) > u-boot-rpi-3-32b (rpi_3_32b_defconfig) > u-boot-rpi-4-32b (rpi_4_32b_defconfig) > u-boot-rpi-arm64 (rpi_arm64_defconfig) >=20 > We wouldn't have a relevent installation configuration, but at least = it would allow building them and manually copying u-boot.bin to the = firmware partition=E2=80=A6 Well, in the past I tried to get one patch into master before sending = the next for review. Doing so I got the comment that it would be hard to = test the changes, as they are not complete and don=E2=80=99t build a = system. :-) > Which leads me to wonder, why have the name and description argument = at all, when you could just inherit and set the name, like done with the = boneblack? For the same board name there will be two packages, the =E2=80=9Cnormal=E2= =80=9D and an EFI variant. Having name-suffix and additional-description = fields eases appending. I will change the parameters accordingly. Having = these parameters also avoids to copy the U-Boot description, like done = for the boneblack. A while back you fixed that description three times. = :-) Bye Stefan