@@ 76,6 76,26 @@ The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-syste
been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
CMake packages.
+*** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
+
+The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
+initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
+evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that
+mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
+
+ (expression->initrd
+ '(begin
+ (mkdir "/proc")
+ (mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
+ ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
+
+More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
+
+Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
+(gnu system vm) module. For instance, the
+‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in
+a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
+
** GNU distribution
Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the
@@ 88,4 108,5 @@ Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
*** Noteworthy new packages
-TeXLive, Xorg, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.
+TeXLive, Xorg, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, CHICKEN,
+Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.