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How we can load a guixsd distribution on raspberry pi? As you know guix is a unix package and guixsd is an operation system that has guix inside itself.

In the below link is the different download package of guix and guixsd, which is suitable? http://guix.gnu.org/download/

I am newbie to raspberry pi, is there any tutorial? Which version of raspberry pi is more suitable? 3 or 4?

in this link there is an instruction for build image for beaglebone (that has u-boot), but for raspberry pi i don't how to do that.

In this link is also another tutorial about run guixsd on beaglebone.

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    you may want the `GNU Guix 1.0.1 Binary

    Self-contained tarball providing binaries for Guix and its dependencies, to be installed on top of your Linux-based system` - the armhf version ... perhaps

     – Jaromanda X Oct 23 '19 at 08:14
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    @jaromanda-x how i install above package, is there any similar tutorial that you introduce me? – Bashid Oct 23 '19 at 08:52
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    follow the Installation instructions link on the page you linked to ... http://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html – Jaromanda X Oct 23 '19 at 09:49

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If you treat the non-free boot firmware like people treat BIOS/EFI on x86 systems, and leave it up to the end-user to set that up, it's probably technically possible.

There may be some drivers that require non-free firmware (e.g. wireless) that will not work with Guix's linux-libre kernel.

The two options I see would be to add support for the boot configuration used by the raspberry pi firmware, or for a little more flexible option, configure the raspberry pi firmware to load u-boot and then use the existing infrastructure to generate u-boot configuration files.

Since there's at least one major non-free component involved, I'm not quite sure how it all sits with following the FSDG:

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html

Though, one could treat that like BIOS/EFI on x86...

Source: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-10/msg00228.html by Vagrant Cascadian

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