Re: ARM: Installation and Booting; was: Re: GuixSD on ARM;

2016-07-19 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, > Also I think the same file as u-boot is the right place for it > [device-tree-compiler]. device-tree-compiler is actually needed for all kernels on embedded. Embedded devices don't have a BIOS and so you have to have some kind of hardware description in order to be able to even boot. The

Re: ARM: Installation and Booting; was: Re: GuixSD on ARM;

2016-07-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Hi Danny, thanks for your insightful comments and starting work on uboot! On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:11:36AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > If you do use SATA, you still need to put U-Boot on SD or the Flash. U-Boot > has SATA support so it can load Grub etc from the hard drive. Their argu

Re: ARM: Installation and Booting; was: Re: GuixSD on ARM;

2016-07-14 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:22:13AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Work-in-progress gnu/packages/u-boot.scm : > > ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU > ;;; Copyright © 2016 Danny Milosavljevic > ;;; > ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. > ;;; > ;;; GNU Guix is free software;

Re: ARM: Installation and Booting; was: Re: GuixSD on ARM;

2016-07-13 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Work-in-progress gnu/packages/u-boot.scm : ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU ;;; Copyright © 2016 Danny Milosavljevic ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; ;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it ;;; under the terms of the GNU General Publ