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Amen, yeah it does hurt. I am wondering if we should do some sort of course source to get some basic smoke test cross-compiled VMs for multiple kernels up and
by Ericson2314 5y ago
Amen, yeah it does hurt.
I am wondering if we should do some sort of course source to get some basic smoke test cross-compiled VMs for multiple kernels up and running.
Just get over that hump, and I think it's all down hill and will work with our usual nixpkgs crowd-sourcing.
What do you think?
- pxc 5y agoI'm not sure what course source means, but I'm down to work on this. I don't really know much about other Unix-likes but I'm willing to stumble through it! What do you want to start with? FreeBSD + Initware (so that we can reuse the existing NixOS systemd service file generation stuff?) I think I'll try messing around with them a little on their own to get a feel for what they need in order to run
- Ericson2314 5y agooh oops, I think I was intending to type "crowd source" but I really met "crowd fund". I do want to finish my FreeBSD cross PR, but is is hard. We already have NetBSD working, including building the kernel, so I think it is better to start there. I opened https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os/issues/16 https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os/issues/16 because I think that would be the absolute easiest first step, with the fewest moving parts. But I don't know how kernels, even Linux, are packaged into bootable thingies at all.
- pxc 5y agoI'm trying to learn a little bit about the NetBSD process this weekend! It seems pretty simple from a user perspective, which is great. I do think crowdfunding is a decent idea, and I'd be willing to support someone who knows what they're doing :)