Hi, Pavel Shlyak <[email protected]> writes: > Reproducer: > guix system image -t iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm > This command fails on aarch64 host. It doesn’t if I manually remove > uvesafb-service-type from the list. It is impossible(and not needed) to run > uvesafb on non-x86 machines at the moment, so I think it should be included > only in x86_64 (and probably 32bit x86 as well) builds.
I can definitely write a patch for that, it won't be worse that what we have right now. I wonder how we could handle the case when there's no KMS for a particular hardware combination (if that's possible), since kmscon requires that. FTR, we require kmscon to be able to display non-latin fonts such as CJK or arabic in the installer. Now that I think about it, if we have a hard requirement on KMS, we could just use a lightweight wayland compositor like cage to display the installer, which would likely simplify the process since we'd have more "usual" tools at our disposal. Best, -- Josselin Poiret
