Mathieu Othacehe <m.othac...@gmail.com> writes: >> We could ship the generic ARM image, let the user use >> qemu-system-arm to boot it and set up the correct u-boot in >> there, and only then write it to SD card. >> >> There could even be a small part in the wip-installer-2 >> that asks you which u-boot you want and set that up. >> >> I'm just trying to prevent Hydra from building ~1000 huge disk images >> with minimal differences in the future... :) > > I agree a single ARMv7 would be better too :) On that point, NixOS seem > to provide a generic image an gives the instructions to write the > bootloader afterwards for every target: > > https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM > > and here, > > https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/BeagleBone_Black > > I'm not found of this approach as it requires more manual steps but we > could maybe try the same thing. > > What do other people think ?
Can we automate these steps so that we have only a single image but customized loader scripts per target? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
