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This comes down to ideological reasons. The engineer that is/was leading the embedded integration subproject feels like the platform support components (filesys
by nurple 3y ago
This comes down to ideological reasons. The engineer that is/was leading the embedded integration subproject feels like the platform support components (filesystem partitioning, bootloader, devicetree config, etc.) of installing a distribution on the hardware should not be a concern of the distribution itself[1].
I don't necessarily agree on all points as most distributions approach this quite differently, but it's an interesting premise. There are other projects that attempt to attack this problem but I'm unsure if any have gained a critical mass.
[1] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/planning-for-a-better-nixos-on-arm-and-other-non-x86-64-systems/15346 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/planning-for-a-better-nixos-on...
- lloeki 3y agoThanks for that link, very interesting to have first party insights! I seemed to have gathered as much from what has been happening at the code level but it's nice to get the insider version instead of whatever I think I have vaguely understood. You can see similar things happening with Asahi Linux, pushing stuff to m1n1+uboot to have a uniform boot interface when reaching the kernel, plus (ultimately) using a mainline kernel.