Hi Leo,
Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > Yes, the hashes of the kernel source code and linux-libre's "deblobbing" > scripts have to be updated. I have some scripts that fetch and calculate > the hashes (attached). Thanks for sharing these scripts with me, I've had a look into them to get familiar with them & so far they seem pretty useful! > I'm not a kernel developer or expert. The upstream defaults for kernel > 'settings' are sensible. We usually differ from the defaults by enabling > support for lots of hardware. Sounds reasonable, supporting as much hardware as possible seems feasible for a generic config for a kernel build. > My impression is that x86_64-linux is by far the most popular platform > for Guix users, and then aarch64-linux, and then the rest. > > Architectural support is a problem of the type "What came first: the > chicken or the egg?" So, if anyone wants to improve support for these > other architectures, you'll be making an egg from scratch, in the hope > that people will start using the kernels :) Yes, imho we're still a few years away from seeing more RISC-V systems. In terms of ARM, I do see some u-boot packages for SBCs in bootloaders.scm, so I assume people are using them, but I agree that x86_64 should have by far the biggest share. > I invite you to choose, email or IRC :) Mail sounds good to me! (I'm rather sporadically active on IRC, so mail usually is a better bet) > To summarize, this work needs regular but brief attention. There's not > much feedback from the community, so we do our best and make sure the > basics work before pushing (reboot and connect to the internet). I'm > eager to help grow the community of people working on this, and can help > answer questions and give advice about things like the configs. Thank you for this. I've seen the recent thread on making linux-libre 6.5 the default kernel[0] and will have some time at hand later on today. I could try to prepare a patch set doing this to get more familiar with the process, which would then need a review. WDYT? [0]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-10/msg00027.html -- Kind regards, Wilko Meyer w...@wmeyer.eu
