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TLDR: There's binaries instead of source code in the repo, which makes it hard to near-impossible to verify what it's doing. And the instructions for building those is lacking.

GH issue: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

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Progress update on the Ventoy blob problem (github.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by fnrir to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Posting this since quite a bit has changed since I last posted about this on !technology@lemmy.world.

Here's a rough breakdown of the current status:

shared Ventoy components: build and seem to work, needs more testing
- grub / menu - builds
- EDK II apps / UEFI chainloader and more - builds
- iPXE / BIOS chainloader - builds, with fixes for newer toolchains
- ISO9660 and UDF drivers - TODO
Ventoy CPIO / Linux ramdisk: builds; I deemed musl xzcat unneeded, so I skipped it; needs more testing
wimboot / Windows chainloader (?) - stalled, I lack the necessary knowledge to work on it
geom-ventoy / FreeBSD disk mapping kernel module - is being worked on, slowly; not ready for testing
anything else is a TODO

This should be enough to boot Linux with just what's built manually, but I haven't tried that yet.

Secure Boot is just done by using a pre-built bypass package. I'll deal with that later.

Having more people testing this would be nice. :)

Cheers

I wonder what AGPLv4 would look like by fnrir in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[-] fnrir 9 points 2 weeks ago

Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in graphics card.

trans liberation rule by fnrir in c/onehundredninetysix

[-] fnrir 16 points 1 month ago

Queer anarchism

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Looking for feedback: Ventoy CPIO (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago by fnrir to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Hello. I'm working on Ventoy CPIO, a replacement ramdisks for Ventoy. My goal is to create a sane build system (first for building ramdisks, then for the entire project), and solve the infamous issue of having blobs in the repo.