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[bug#44543] [PATCH] gnu: raspberry-pi: Add helpers for config.txt file g
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Danny Milosavljevic |
Subject: |
[bug#44543] [PATCH] gnu: raspberry-pi: Add helpers for config.txt file generation. |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:01:08 +0100 |
Hi Stefan,
thanks!
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:38:19 +0100
Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de> wrote:
> The firmware blob using these files can’t be handled by Guix, this will have
> to be left as an exercise. But could I add a skeleton for it? Maybe something
> like this (but better using the copy-build-system):
There is a free software Raspberry VC firmware on
https://github.com/librerpi/rpi-open-firmware/ (currently cannot handle graphics
and USB and lots of other important things--but it DOES boot) and development
is ongoing.
We can just package that free software firmware and use it.
I've already started packaging it for Guix.
> (operating-system
> (bootloader
> (bootloader-configuration
> (bootloader (bootloader-chain
> (list (file-append raspi-firmware "/boot/")
> (file-append u-boot-rpi-3 "/libexec/u-boot.bin")
> raspi-config.txt
> raspi-u-boot-bootloader.txt
> ;; Additional configurations to use.
> (raspi-custom.txt '("disable_overscan=1"
> "hdmi_force_hotplug=1"
> "audio=on"
> "dtoverlay=gpio-ir"
> "dtoverlay=disable-wifi"
>
> "dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d,cma-64")))
> grub-efi-netboot-bootloader
> #:installer (install-grub-efi-netboot "efi/boot")
> #:copy-files? #t))
I advice to add a user-level function for a free software Raspberry Pi 3 efi
netboot bootloader to Guix (and a non-efi-netboot one, too, maybe).
Something like
(define (raspi-3-efi-netboot-bootloader efi-boot custom-text)
(bootloader-chain like you do above custom-text))
I don't think that it's reasonable to expect the user to use bootloader-chain
by himself (it's not user-friendly to have to do that).
> The above bootloader-chain could certainly be added to Guix, but leaving out
> the raspi-firmware and the raspi-custom.txt – maybe as a function to allow
> adding an own raspi-custom.txt. If someone copies the firmware by hand onto
> an SD card, then such a bootloader provided as e.g. raspi-grub-bootloader
> would work.
Yeah.
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