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<vasi>Hi folks! Does anyone know of a list anywhere of which distros are bootstrappable, and in which ways? <civodul>more generally, the site needs an update about stage0, Mes, etc. <vasi>I suppose the definition of "bootstrappable" I'm most interested in for distros is: can i re-create this distro without already running the distro? <vasi>So things like NetBSD's build.sh would count, probably things like T2/Yocto too <matrix_bridge><Andrius Štikonas> vasi: I don't think there is a list, but e.g. it is not hard to build gentoo from live-bootstrap <vasi>matrix_bridge: I think Funtoo has a semi-automatic system for this too, "Funtoo From Scratch". I'll see if I can collect some examples of distros <kindling>I saw this in the stage0 README: "Implement the Knight processor in FPGA and then convert into TTL." <kindling>Is there any interest in using a hex keypad connected to an SPI -> SDC application instead? <kindling>I'm thinking of using an embedded system to type a small MBR + partition that hosts enough code for computing CRC32 values. <kindling>That would at least let you compute checksums for use in GPT headers, so that you can type something UEFI can boot nto an SDC. <kindling>Problem is, I never built an embedded system before. I'll do the work if someone can help me understand what goes between a hex keypad and an SPI module without an OS dependency.