While T60 with ATI GPUs can be used as servers for instance, not
officially supporting them simplifies the support and also doesn't
steer users toward installing nonfree Video BIOS afterward.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
A link was also fixed in the news along the way.
On the Thinkpads T60 and X60 a full installation from the nonfree BIOS
was tested with locally built patched Flashrom 1.2 and bucts.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 and 0.1 RC2 releases don't have any images for
the Chromebook C201. And the Chromebook C201 also cannot use images
for any of the other computers as all the other computers are x86
whereas the C201 is ARM.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix building images with make release or './build release
all' results in the following error:
[...]
Built lenovo/t400 (ThinkPad R400)
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/gnutoo/gnuboot/coreboot/default'
Creating new ROM image: bin/r400_16mb/seabios_withgrub_r400_16mb_libgfxinit_corebootfb_colemak.rom
Usage:
./build <TASK> <PACKAGE>
./build --help
[...]
Refer to the gnuboot documentation for more information.
Error: Invalid task 'descriptors'.
Error: See './build --help'.
Error: build/roms: something went wrong
make: *** [Makefile:47: release] Error 1
This was broken by the commit 857afa42a8
("Switch to packages structure.").
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We had both issues described in the text during the RC2:
- Both maintainers agreed to merge a translation under a pseudonym but
one of the maintainers also asked to GNU permission to do that. Due
to a miscommunication between the maintainers it was pushed before
getting feedback from the GNU project.
- Both maintainers agreed to the release commit but due to a
misunderstanding / miscommunication it was pushed too early while
some other commits that still need to be made were supposed to go in
before that announcement commit in order to tag that announcement.
In both cases a process like the one mentioned in the text would
probably avoid to push things too early, especially because the author
of the patch set new about these issues and had them in mind all the
time, and since an additional Ack from that person would still be
needed before pushing, it would avoided this issue.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The file adding the news is named gnuboot-december-2023.md instead of
gnuboot-0.1-rc1.md as the later is understood as a translation in the
'1-rc1' lang. Renaming the file to gnuboot-0.1-rc1.en.md instead makes
untitled detect the lang correctly but then it assumes this is a
translation and adds a broken link for "English" on the new page.
For now the older Libreboot news were kept as this shows the history
of the project and since GNU Boot is a continuation of the Libreboot
project it makes sense to also keep them.
The CSS also needed to be separated from the template because
otherwise the generated news page would be incomplete and miss all
what comes before the CSS like '<!DOCTYPE html>' for instance.
Finally x-reviewed was changed into x-unreviewed because we can't set
x-reviewed for the news, so the only way to remove the banner for the
individual news is to default to reviewed (and to mark all unreviewed
files as such).
As for the Untitled patch it is needed to make the news page work.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Documenting where to find binaries built with 'make release' helps
users trying to build GNU Boot for the first time, especially if
something goes wrong.
It is also extremely useful for contributors writing release scripts
as this avoid needing to build a complete release just to find out the
name and location of released files.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The test was reported in the bug #64981[1].
[1]https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64981
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This page is supposed to describe the Libreboot build system, but it
seems to only be there as a placeholder waiting for contributions that
add the actual information.
The problem here is that we don't want to describe the build system in
details in the manual for now as it is being reworked and it is
subject to change.
So for now we prefer to cleanup the code instead, and commenting it
along the way if possible, and if some explanations need to be added
in the manual it will most likely cover the global architecture which
isn't defined yet.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We can't require contributors to install Debian as it has freedom
issues[1] but for contributors, installing PureOS is easier since
it's at least FSDG compliant[2]. So it makes sense to show that
PureOS is the primary target here.
This is also reflected in the reality as the current GNU Boot
maintainers already installed PureOS 10 inside virtual machines
and/or containers to test this script and build the GNU Boot 0.1
RC1 release.
[1]https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Debian
[2]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We can't require contributors to install Ubuntu as it has freedom
issues[1] but for contributors, installing Trisquel is easier since
it's at least FSDG compliant[2]. So it makes sense to show that
Trisquel is the primary target here.
This is also reflected in the reality as the current GNU Boot
maintainers already installed Trisquel 10 inside virtual machines
and/or containers to test this script.
[1]https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Ubuntu
[2]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The reference to lbmk was removed because there is no lbmk script in
GNU Boot.
The python section was removed as this is already taken care of by the
combination of the dependencies installation scripts and the
recommendation of specific distributions to build GNU Boot. Untested
distributions were also removed.
As for the removal of x-toc-enable, we had issues when having both
x-toc-enable and x-reviewed on the same page in the past. This is
documented in the commit adc578ae49
("site: license.md: fix x-reviewed"). So to make sure to avoid similar
issue we preemptively remove x-toc-enable.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Many projects that make hardware work (drivers, etc) have status
pages.
Here GNU Boot is a distribution and with very few exceptions (like
infrared and TPM on I945 Thinkpads) most of the hardware work fine.
However we currently need to track what computers were tested, if the
installation instruction work, and the upstream status to know if a
computer is likely to continue being supported or not if nobody
volunteers to help.
This is also a practical way to ask volunteers to test with very
simple tasks like bug reporting if things work or don't work.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNU boot has mailing lists and an IRC channel. This commit reflects that in
contact.md
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNUtoo: Fixed lines over 80 characters, fixed main mailing list scope,
grouped mailing lists together.
Acked-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
The t60_unbrick.html[1] page didn't show any images on gnu.org but it
worked fine locally with 'make test'. A sysadmin from the FSF noticed
that these pages had an .htaccess and after temporarily removing them
the pages worked again. So removing the .htaccess should fix that
issue.
[1]https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuboot/web/docs/install/t60_unbrick.html
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Having an {arch,debian,fedora35,ubuntu2004,void} GNU Boot package
looked strange. Having a dependencies package instead makes more
sense.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The various build scripts are scattered around in multiple
places. This make it hard for contributors to understand what they
need to modify.
Most GNU Boot users are interested in running GNU/Linux or BSD
operating systems. And the way to install software on these
operating systems is through a package manager. So most users and
contributors already know the package manager abstraction.
So using that abstraction makes it easier to find where things are.
The scripts to install dependencies don't really fit the new structure
but for now we move them in to make sure that everything works
fine. This could be fixed later on and migrated to a single
dependencies packages by auto-detecting the distribution with
/etc/os-release.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This commit replaces the GPG fingerprint of neox, since it has been revoked
and replaced by a new one.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
The information on who maintains GNU Boot is already in git.md, and
having duplicate information increase maintenance costs, here for no
known benefits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We add that information in "Send patches & contribute" as contributors
also need to understand the workflow, to know if their patch is being
accepted, if they need to do something special or not, need to wait,
etc.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The 'TODO' link was pointing to an old page that is currently not up-to-date
so this commit replaces that link by another, to the Savannah forge main page.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The 'Bugs' link in the template was pointing to the old bug reporting page of
our previous project. This commit makes it pointing to the Savannah bug
reporting system used by GNU Boot.
Signed-off-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Since we now have a very visible banner that indicates which pages
have been not been reviewed, and contribution instructions on how to
fix that, we are ready to publish the website.
Right now the deploy path of the website isn't configurable as this
would require some form of templating or processing of the markdown
files, so the website was simply moved from
gnu.org/software/gnuboot/test to gnu.org/software/gnuboot.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This uses a black background and white text which is the opposite of
the default theme. By using black and white, this also makes sure that
color blind people can still see the banner.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNU Boot might have to send some of the patches upstream so we can't
have a policy that applies to everything unless we also look into
upstream projects and GNU policies as well.
In addition we might need multiple ways to satisfy upstream
constraints to fit different needs / compromise from people wanting to
contribute anonymously.
And as the problem raised here is more global it is better to have a
more global answers and find ways that also work with upstream projects
as well.
Being a GNU project, GNU boot would also need to look into the GNU
policies on the topic and also try to see if for instance the FSF
copyright assignements could also be used in some cases to fix that
issue.
There are also other things worth looking into as well. For instance
Software Conservancy also handles copyright assignments and Asahi Lina
that contributes anonymously to the Linux kernel while satisfying
their very strict policy about tracking copyright ownership.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
It makes more sense to report test success / failure to the bug
mailing list because there are already similar reports in our bug
tracking system and also because this doesn't need to send any
patches.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Reported-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
In Parabola, the libreboot-utils and various u-boot packages needed
Libreboot as it was providing deblobbed source releases of Coreboot
and u-boot.
Because of that and also because I need also deblobbed u-boot for Guix
and Replicant, I ended up being involved in Libreboot.at and then GNU
Boot.
However the Replicant project also needs my help, so when joining
Libreboot.at and then GNU Boot I mostly wanted to have a project I
could rely on and be able to easily send patches to it.
So the idea was that once the project would be in a good shape I would
reconsider if I still needed to be a maintainer and try to see if new
contributors wanted to replace me (to have more than one maintainers)
and then go back sending patches from time to time as a regular
contributor to have more time for other projects.
This is why we used the word "interim" at the beginning: I was not
sure (and still am not sure) to want to stay maintainer of GNU Boot
forever. Adrien however has other plans.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
People probably want to have first a very short description of the
project and then its status before knowing the project history.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
For some reasons having both 'x-reviewed: true' and 'x-toc-enable:
true' results in having the following content on the top-right of the
page:
title: Code
review
x-toc-
enable:
true
x-reviewed:
true
Return to
index
…
GNU Boot
repositories
Since using the Untitled static website generator is meant to be
temporary, fixing this issue is not a priority right now.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
If we are in test/web the links work fine but if we go in
test/web/docs/, the links are relative to the current page and stop
working.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
If we are in test/web the links work fine but if we go in
test/web/docs/, the links are relative to the current page and stop
working.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
For some reasons having both 'x-reviewed: true' and 'x-toc-enable:
true' results in having the following content on the top-right of the
page:
title: Code
review
x-toc-
enable:
true
x-reviewed:
true
Return to
index
…
GNU Boot
repositories
Since using the Untitled static website generator is meant to be
temporary, fixing this issue is not a priority right now.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Using simply 'git log' or 'git show' shows the author but not the
commiter.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without that fix, clicking to Download will go to
https://gnu.org/download.html.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The website will be published to https://gnu.org/software/gnuboot. But
for now it is not ready yet to be published as-is because there are no
contribution instructions yet and we also need to agree on what to put
on the main page.
So until that's fixed, it will be published to
https://gnu.org/software/gnuboot/test.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Neox: Suggested the split from the "website-build: build.sh: switch to
GNU Boot repositories." commit.
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Since the website and the images were merged in GNU boot respectively
in site/ and www/, we can now modify GNU boot to only be cloned once
to build the website.
This also requires to move the images inside site/ at the place where
website-build expects them.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Neox: Suggested the split from the "website-build: build.sh: switch to
GNU Boot repositories." commit.
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Now there are probably too much people to thank to have all that on
the main page.
If we want to keep their names, a better idea would be to collect all
their names and add them to the release announcement.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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