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Re: GuixSD install, bootable on multiple architectures
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: GuixSD install, bootable on multiple architectures |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:31:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Nathan Dehnel <address@hidden> skribis:
> I had an idea for an operating system that is portable across CPU
> architectures.
[...]
> This would for example allow you to install GuixSD for x86, then, by
> setting an option in your package manager, install a set of PowerPC
> packages in parallel, and then put your drive in a PowerPC machine and
> it would boot.
>
> Is this theoretically possible to implement?
Yes. You could use the ‘--system’ switch of these commands and if
needed, you could use the ‘qemu-binfmt’ service on GuixSD to allow
building for different architectures via QEMU.
That said, the example you gave above seems a bit far-fetched to me. :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.