Hi! Ekaitz gave a great talk about trust and the boostrap problem. And did a bit of Q&A on his future plans, along with the what it's like being sponsored to do this sort of work. The video is published:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7DyiRqWBk If you'd like to see his slides they're available here: https://ekaitz.elenq.tech/bootstrapGcc16.html Enjoy it! Futurile / Steve On 17 Sep, Steve George wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Guix Social is today, Tuesday, with a talk by Ekaitz Zarraga on > bootstrapping RISC-V. Times: > > 17:00 UTC, 18:00 BST (London), 19:00 CEST (Paris), 13:00 EDT (New York) > > Link to join: > > https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup > > The bootstrapping problem is that many OS's can't build themselves from > source. Somewhere in the chain there is a compiler binary that was created at > a previous point in history. The impact on security and trust is that we > can't assure ourselves that the platform hasn't been backdoored [0]. Ekaitz > and many others have been working on bringing up RISC-V with a full source > bootstrap for the last couple of years. In this talk he'll introduce RISC-V, > the bootstrap problem and talk about the journey to a full source bootstrap > in Guix. > > If you'd like to be notified about **future meetups** you can subscribe to > the Wiki or to the Meet-up: > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024 > > https://www.meetup.com/guix-london/events/303448758/ > > Hope to see you there! > > Steve / Futurile > > [0] https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50/ >
