We ship images for computers like the Gigabyte D945GCLF2D which are
not working. All the SeaBIOS images are also not working in the GNU
Boot 0.1 RC4. And many of the images were never tested.
In the 0.1 RC4 the images were removed from the FTP as keeping them
would increase too much the risk of users breaking their computer.
However to make the removal of images really work, the people
responsible for the release would then need to test all the images
themselves to be really sure that things are working, or to somehow
build a procedure where some users privately get the images before the
release.
This doesn't work because it would put too much burden on the actual
maintainers: it would require too much time for testing all the images
and this is not automated. In additions the current maintainers don't
even have all the supported computers and the GNU Boot project relies
on all users that can test to test the images.
In addition, releasing the images as part of the release procedure is
easier for everybody: the testers can also get the full source code
easily, they don't need to use custom images, anyone can test, etc.
Because of that it was decided that it was better to teach users to
minimize the risk themselves by looking at the status before upgrading
GNU Boot.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Acked-by: Adrien 'neox' Bourmault <neox@gnu.org>
The page name aren't directly meaningful. In contrib.md for instance I
would expect to find how to contribute. In git.md instead I would
expect to find how to download GNU Boot but not how to contribute.
Since the authors page isn't meaningful anymore for GNU Boot as it has
different priorities than Libreboot at the time where it was fully
free, and also because GNU Boot also wants to put forward smaller
contributions, especially contributions that aren't recorded in git.
As the GNU Boot project doesn't have the same community or dynamics
than the Libreboot project had, the gaps it has are different. So we
also try to put forward contributions that fills these gaps.
However since this page is very important historically, so we need to
keep it not to forget about it. So to fix that we added GNU Boot's
point of view and moved it in the history section.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
neox: updated link in pages/template.include
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 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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