February 24, 2023 10:41 AM, "Peter Polidoro" <pe...@polidoro.io> wrote:
>> Actually, my new friend Mitchell just created a blog post about > using >> GNU Guix for Zephyr kernels: >> >> https://gnucode.me/building-toolchains-with-guix.html > > Great blog post, thank you! It makes me a little hesitant about Zephyr if > they have just given up > on other people building their SDK, but I am very glad all of you smart > people are working on a > Guix alternative. > > I am still curious if other parts of Guix System could be useful in embedded > environments if all of > the packages are cross-compiled. > > I am not sure of the detailed plans for Oniro, but I assume that it will > provide some sort of > abstraction layer and user space on top of either the Linux kernel or the > embedded Zephyr kernel. > Would it be possible to make some subset of Guix System into something > equivalent or is an entirely > new operating system really necessary for that purpose? Are most of the > resource requirements for > Guix System, 1 Gig of ram, etc, due to the package builder and Guix/Nix > daemon? If it was possible > to declare an instance of Guix System that did not include those and only > used cross-compiled > packages, could some portion of Guix System function in a similar way as > Oniro, or is that a > nonsense question? I'm probably not the best person to ask about that. I am adding in Mitchell to the discussion. Mitchell, what do you think? Could we use a subset of guix system in embedded environments? Thanks, Joshua
