01/01: website: reproducible-build-summit-2019: Link to asmc and NBS.

[Ludovic Court�s]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
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commit 410da7f2c59caa757398c5bbd65b3df0cd579feb
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Dec 12 21:51:19 2019 +0100

    website: reproducible-build-summit-2019: Link to asmc and NBS.
    
    * website/drafts/reproducible-build-summit-2019.md (Extreme
    bootstrapping): Link to NBS and asmc.
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 website/drafts/reproducible-build-summit-2019.md | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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@@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ with all the necessary machinery:
      implementation](https://github.com/weinholt/hashing) to compute and
      display the hash of the build result.
 
-More on that in a future post!
+More on that in a future post!  Interestingly, we learned that
+[NBS](https://gitlab.com/giomasce/nbs) is taking a similar
+approach—building from the initrd—though with different binary seeds and
+specific build and packaging tooling.
 
 We went on exploring the space of what we called “extreme bootstrapping”
 some more.  How could we further reduce the TCB?  The kernel is an
@@ -133,7 +136,12 @@ Fabrice Bellard’s 2004 [impressive `tcc-boot`
 experiment](https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html) reminds us that we
 could even aim for a bootloader that builds the OS kernel before it
 boots it; this removes Linux entirely from the TCB, in exchange for
-[TinyCC](http://www.tinycc.org/).
+[TinyCC](http://www.tinycc.org/).  As part of the “Bootstrappable
+Debian” project, [`asmc`](https://gitlab.com/giomasce/asmc) takes a
+similar approach: providing a very small OS kernel that’s enough to
+compile simple things.  This is like going “_from inorganic matter to
+organic molecules_”, [as Giovanni Mascellani nicely puts
+it](https://debconf19.debconf.org/talks/152-bootstrappable-debian-bof/).
 
 When a [Mirage](https://mirage.io/) developer and hackers familiar with
 [GNU/Hurd](https://hurd.gnu.org) talk about bootstrapping, it is no