The logo links were not real links and at least the one in the FAQ was
converted multiple times and I'm not sure exactly when it was broken
or if it ever worked as finding out would require to test on
previously used infrastructure like sourcehut or even
https://libreboot.org.
As for the link in the logo-license page I didn't investigate when it
was broken either, but it was probably broken from the start since it
didn't have any URI protocol in it (like https://).
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The link was not a real link and I'm not sure exactly when it was
broken or if it ever worked as finding out would require to test on
previously used infrastructure like sourcehut or even
https://libreboot.org.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This was broken by the commit 795c669c58
("shorten title on release announcement").
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This enable to later on change the subdirectory in which the website
is reployed (for instance from software/gnuboot/web to
software/gnuboot/web/test) without breaking images.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This enable to later on change the subdirectory in which the website
is reployed (for instance from software/gnuboot/web to
software/gnuboot/web/test) without breaking images.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This enable to later on change the subdirectory in which the website
is reployed (for instance from software/gnuboot/web to
software/gnuboot/web/test) without breaking images.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The LICENSE file talks about a repository, but since the commit
54c6ae497d ("Merge the
documentation/website pictures into GNU Boot"), the images were merged
into a bigger repository, and so the license in the root directory of
the repository changed. So we need to update the license path.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The LICENSE file talks about a repository, but since the commit
54c6ae497d ("Merge the
documentation/website pictures into GNU Boot"), the images were merged
into a bigger repository with files under different free software
licenses.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The Guix manual[1] allows patches under pseudonymous:
Contributors are not required to use their legal name in patches
and on-line communication; they can use any name or pseudonym of
their choice.
[1]https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html
For Guix packages that contain patches to other upstream projects we
would need to contact the upstream project to best see how to handle
that.
As for the documentation, part of it is most likely to stay specific
to GNU Boot, but other parts could be merged into Guix (which was
already checked), GRUB or other projects to simplify maintenance.
As for the GNU Boot build system, it's most likely specific to GNU
Boot or likely to be moved into Guix packages at some point. The only
problematic cases that can remain are the move of the build logic
inside upstream project or for transforming hacks into autotools
contributions.
But in any case when contributions that could be merged in projects
that weren't checked are made, the GNU Boot maintainers and/or
followers of the GNU Boot patches mailing list could simply mention
the issue and look up the upstream policy with regard to pseudonymous
contributions, and if that doesn't work out, work with upstream
projects to find a solution.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
One of the definitions of ROM is read-only-memory. Because of that it
creates confusion when this term is used to refer to an image that
is to be installed on a writable storage.
Signed-off-by: DiffieHellman <DiffieHellman@endianness.com>
GNUtoo: split commit, commit message.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: DiffieHellman <DiffieHellman@endianness.com>
GNUtoo: split, commit message, keep "Linux kernel", rephrase the part
with BusyBox, fix more spelling mistakes found by neox and me.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
GNU Boot can be installed on some I945 ThinkPads without disassembling
them. To do that it requires both a patched flashrom and bucts.
This build them and also integrate Guix in GNU Boot as a dependency to
build them.
This will enable us to later on ship these utilities and then update
the installation instructions to use them somehow.
It also makes sure that we have proper authorship of the patch used
for flashrom and also unify the two flashrom patches not to require
two different flashrom binaries.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The goal here is to be able to add configure options later on.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Guix now supports debootstraping both PureOS and Trisquel. In Guix,
the keyring packages are runtime dependencies of debootstrap, and
debootstrap refers to them by their full path in /gnu/store.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We need to install the keyring packages to make sure that the
signatures are checked. So a table was created for that and also to
enable to add more distributions in it (like Guix) later on.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
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>
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
DiffieHellman
