Since the GNU Boot project doesn't want to force any of its
contributors to test with nonfree distributions or operating systems,
we can't review the accuracy of the BSD pages, and there are no GNU
Boot users who already use BSD systems that contacted the GNU Boot
project.
So the solution here is instead to document the current project
decisions, to point to freedom reviews of the BSD operating systems by
the GNU project, and to convert the articles to refer to what
Libreboot stated about BSD systems, while taking the point of view of
GNU Boot.
Since Libreboot already very strongly discouraged the use of GRUB to
boot encrypted BSD systems, users using BSD systems probably have
followed this advice or were aware of it, so this enables us to remove
support for BSD encryption inside GRUB without the need to try to
directly contact users.
Still, as I plan to try to do that (to reduce GRUB's size for
computers with 512KiB flash size), it's still a good idea good idea to
document it inside the page as well to explain why, according to GNU
Boot (and not LibreBoot) it is a good idea not to rely on GRUB images
for booting encrypted BSD systems.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without this fix we have the following error on Trisquel 11 when
building the GRUB payload:
configure: error: qemu, coreboot and loongson ports need unifont
Trisquel 10 also has an 'unifont' package, and installing it doesn't
break the build of the GRUB payload.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The entries inside the "Verified copyright headers" section refer to
commit hashes. And since a commit can't refer to itself (unless SHA1
is broken), we split that in two commits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The build system was designed to produce images with different GPU
drivers for a single computer and/or to show the image name in the
final image names, to enable users to know which GPU driver was used.
However since all boards have practically speaking the same GPU driver
('libgfxinit') this adds too much complexity for almost no benefits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The seabios_grubfirst images provides the same functionality than the
GRUB images, but instead of having GRUB being loaded directly by
Coreboot, Coreboot loads SeaBIOS which then loads GRUB.
These images probably exist to enable end users to try it to workaround
potential compatibility issues between the OS and GRUB with the GRUB
image as we have a BIOS implementation being loaded.
While this looks useful, it also makes things more complicated:
- It increase the number of images to choose from, and it's
complicated to explain the difference between grub and
seabios_grubfirst to end users.
For instance for the "x200_8mb", users need to choose between 2 GPU
modes (corebootfb, or txtmode) and 12 keyboard layouts. So having to
choose between 2 payloads instead of 3 with one difference that is
hard to understand makes things easier.
- It makes testing more complicated as we have one more payload to
test and we also need to make sure to always differenciate both
images in bug reports, documentation, etc.
And if issues arise from this change in the future, we could work with
upstream to fix them and/or replace the grub images with
'seabios_grubfirst' while keeping the 'grub' name to avoid
complicating things by having two main payloads with identical
features.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
neox: fixed typos in commit message
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The entries inside the "Files with an incomplete copyright header"
section refer to commit hashes. And since a commit can't refer to
itself (unless SHA1 is broken), we split that in two commits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Note that we only have the history of the global.css file since the
commit 501e77d996 ("libreboot site").
Since this "libreboot site" commit is about 38000 lines, and that some
pages contain many translations (site/news/rms.md is translated in 20
languages), it is most likely that it was based on an earlier history
of either the older Libreboot website, or the osboot website if it
existed at the time.
The license however is easier to find as the commit mentioned above
has site/license.md which has the following:
Unless otherwise stated, every page and image (e.g. JPG/PNG files) on
libreboot.org or in the repository that it is built on, is released under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, either version 1.3 or (at your
option) any newer version as published by the [Free Software
Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/), with no Invariant Sections, no Front Cover
Texts and no Back Cover
Texts.
And both the osboot website or the older versions of the Libreboot
website also used the same license (GFDL 1.3+ with no Invariant
Sections, no Front Cover Texts and no Back Cover Texts).
Also while I touched the global.css file I didn't modify its content,
including in the commit 0e3ff8047f
(Announce and release GNU Boot 0.1 RC2 and project status.) where I
extracted global.css from site/template.include. This can easily be
verified with meld. Because of that there I didn't add my copyright in
this file.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We have redundant news systems: GNU Boot is already using GNU and
Savannah's new infrastructure, so we don't need to duplicate that on
the GNU Boot website.
This lowers the maintenance now (as we need to do less work to publish
news).
But it also lowers the amount of work in the future as Untitled (the
static website generator that we use) handles news generation
differently from the rest of the pages, and since we planned to
migrate to Haunt, getting rid of news generation should probably
divide the amount of work needed to do the migration by two.
Thanks a lot to Adrien 'neox' Bourmault for the help with this patch
(neox gave me the links, told me about the capabilities of Savannah,
Planet, etc).
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
We need to somehow isolate the git configuration being used to build
GNU Boot from the rest of the system as otherwise things like
automatic gpg signatures can kick in and block the build because it
waits for a pinentry.
In addition:
- It enables us to simplify the build code as the git configuration is
now the same during all the build.
- Contributors don't need to setup git anymore just to build GNU
Boot. This also makes GNU Boot a bit more reproductible.
Replacing git inside the build scripts / Makefiles enable us to still
run them manually (like ./resources/packages/coreboot/download).
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without this change, we have no idea if the website we see on
https://gnu.org/software/gnuboot/ is using the latest git commit.
It also allows anyone to spot and report to us that the website has
the wrong revision.
With this change we can also potentially spot issues in the website
generation for instance when the website should have been regenerated
and it wasn't, or from an archive or web page file, get to the git
commit it was generated from.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
All the content on this page has now been reviewed by the GNU Boot
project.
This change is badly needed as the docs link is available in the
header of most pages of the website, and also because the docs page
also links to pages that were reviewed and that are perfectly valid,
so readers might stop there and not look at other pages below.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The information on how to find the GNU Boot version that is running is
outdated (for instance there is no lbversion, it also refers to older
Libreboot revisions). Because of that, we move it in a separate page
for now as this can then enable to remove the unreviewed tag to the
docs index page.
This is urgent and important as the docs link is available in the
header of most pages of the website, and also because the docs page
also links to pages that were reviewed and that are perfectly valid,
so readers might stop there and not look at other pages below.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The entries inside the "Verified copyright headers" section refer to
commit hashes. And since a commit can't refer to itself (unless SHA1
is broken), we split that in two commits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The entries inside the "Verified copyright headers" section refer to
commit hashes. And since a commit can't refer to itself (unless SHA1
is broken), we split that in two commits.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Without this commit we have no way of tracking the status of files and
we risk making the same verification too many times.
Ideally we also need procedure and/or tools to make sure omissions
don't get in.
So far the work to update some of the headers on some of the files
required to look at multiple git repositories and even tarball
releases, and in some cases it even required good knowledge of the
provenance of the files to reconstruct the proper history.
In contrast the way we track contributions in git makes it much easier
to fix subsequent omissions of people/dates in the copyright headers.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This has several reasons:
- The GNU Boot project didn't review all the hardware made by Pusi.sm,
especially because Puri.sm also sell hardware that is out of scope
for the GNU Boot project like USB tokens or SIM cards.
- Reducing the scope to just x86 computers made by Puri.sm instead
doesn't work either because there is no context to the
recommendation.
In harm reduction[1], the Freedom Ladder campaign by the FSF[2], and
the FSF giving guide[3], context is taken into account so that people
can make informed choices based on their constraints and choices.
In practice these approaches make statement like "this computer
respects more your freedom than this other one", or "this is
dangerous because of that and you can reduce harm this way, even if
it's far from perfect" and give context to statements to enable
people to really understand what it means.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_reduction
[2]https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns-summaries#ladder
[3]https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/
At the end of the day it's also less work and maintenance to just
remove that hardware recommendation statement than to review specific
computers that GNU Boot doesn't even support.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The idea behind this FAQ entry is to be able to point to it when
people ask us to support additional computers.
This makes sure we don't miss important points in our answers and it
also tries to convey the kind of work needed, including for less
common but important cases like when the code for a computer is found
to work on another one (in that case we badly want to know about it,
especially if there is only documentation work to be done for it).
In addition this kind of question is very common in projects that have
limited hardware support, so that also should help us spending less
time answering that question again and again.
The answer also makes it very clear that GNU Boot is just a
distribution and also shows the kind of work various contributors do
to show that some of them are really easy to do, in the hope that it
could bring up more contributors as well.
The way the entry is written (trying to avoid technical words, while
also speaking about very technical topics) is because it is meant for
a very wide audience that go from less technical users that just want
GNU Boot to work on the computer they have but don't know anything
about hardware support, to contributors to projects like Coreboot and
U-Boot that might just want to also add support for computers they
worked on in GNU Boot.
Wording like "the computer will need to be supported well by other
project" is vague to enable people used to contribute to projects like
Coreboot or U-Boot or even experienced distributions contributors will
understand it as having the strict minimum of out of tree patches,
while also enabling less technical users (that don't know what is an
"out of tree patch") to understand more or less what it means.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
neox: minor changes (typo and repetition)
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
While this doesn't show the complete history of GNU Boot, it is at
least useful for fixing missing copyrights inside copyright headers.
Also I tried adding the first tarball releases of Libreboot, before it
was in git, inside the same git-history.dot and it turned out to be
way too messy as some arrows ended up mostly in the same place making
it impossible to distinguish which arrow went where without using
color or other ways of distinguishing them.
However the textual version of the tarball history turned out to be
easier to read/understand so we used that.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
neox: minor fix in the commit message
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The status page was wrongly named from the beginning.
The file title (but not the rest of the content) was copied from
git.md in the commit f431e5a164 ("site:
add GNU Boot status page.").
The title of the git.md file was already there in the very first git
commit of the lbwww repository that was merged in GNU Boot in the
commit b42fd2220c ("Merge the website
into GNU Boot"). The history of that file beyond that is unknown.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Adding the product of RYF vendors has several advantages:
- First it enables to later on differenciate vendors computers as some
are known to change the flash chip size for instance.
- It enable users to more easily identify the computer they have.
Having the computers being RYF also make sure that they work without
nonfree software.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Since we now have documentation for using flashrom we can consider
that as having some very generic upgrade instructions.
And since no one tested them we don't know if they work so we can
reflect that.
As for what instructions can be simplified, probably everything can be
simplified at some point, and we need space for mentionning tests of
the upgrade instructions anyway.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
At the beginning I tried to describe the GNU Boot project in a single
sentence to be as simple as possible for less technical users.
But then I ended up having to explain again and again to people that
GNU Boot is only a distribution.
We probably had this problem for a very long time, as Libreboot also
had the same issue, and since we inherited all its code and that we
continue its original spirit, we also have the same issue.
And I still had to correct people very recently even long after having
changed the Savannah project description page and having restructured
a bit the build system to look more like packages.
So here I see no other option than changing the front page as well, as
getting this point across is important, especially when we are looking
for contributions, as contributing to a distribution is often easier
than contributing to upstream software.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
While this mentions a previously held install party, it encourages
people to organize install parties and shows that they could be
mentioned on the GNU Boot website in some ways.
In addition it also explains the pros and cons of install parties.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This enables to later on have some separation between the first
installation which typically requires to open the computer or at least
need a special procedure like for I945 ThinkPads, with upgrade
instructions that just require to run 'flashrom -p internal -w
<gnuboot-image>'.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
This allow to have on the same page different options (Install, Buy
preinstalled) to get GNU Boot, and have a short description of each
option as it is not necessarily obvious which option can work for a
given user.
In addition it also enables to warn people just using 'Download' to
read the documentation as it is not obvious what to do once a user
downloaded an archive with images inside.
And finally it also allow to add more options later on.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
It's a good idea not to mix markdown files with other file types as
this facilitates a lot the migration to haunt.
In addition it also helps separating these dumps from the general
website as they are also useful without the website.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
It's a good idea not to mix markdown files with other file types as
this facilitates a lot the migration to haunt.
In addition it also helps separating these dumps from the general
website as they are also useful without the website.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Before being merged with the commit
dc6e1f32c1 ("Import website-build to
build the GNU Boot website."), website-build was a separate git
repository.
And so, even after the merge, until the commit
20d122e94a ("website-build: use website
from local git repository."), it still worked in the same way and
still downloaded the website from git.
This prevented merging the website and website-build directories
together as the GNU Boot repository also needed to be a valid Untitled
website repository as well.
Now after this commit, the website is built from the same git tree, so
we can simply adjust the build scripts to be able to move things
around.
In addition of making things more clear for contributors, it also
simplify the migration to haunt as with haunt we typically have the
haunt.cfg (and the autotools build code if needed) code in the top
directory and the markdown files in a subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
Anton McClure