guix-nonfree

I don't have access to it now. When I do I can put the package definitions and OS config up somewhere. When you first boot GuixSD most of the core stuff should work fine. Wireless will not work but you should have ethernet. I created mainline linux kernel and firmware packages [1]. Then you need to get the broadcom b43 firmware to get wireless support. I think I made 2 packages. One for b43-fwcutter and one the broadcom-wl firmware which uses b43-fwcutter to cut and install it. I think just about everything on my MBP was working after that. [1] example linux package https://github.com/wingo/guix-nonfree/blob/master/gnu/packag... [2] http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/

There are a smattering of code snippets around This[1] is the one I used as a reference for my kernel build which includes brcmfmac There is also a feature called 'channels' (not widely documented AFAIK) which allows you to describe an outside repository of code you can reference to install packages. There is one[2] that provides Chromium (though I cannot get the build to succeed). The downside to all of these not being provided in mainline is the amount of time and energy to build them. I suspect there are more people than I would like curating their build of the linux kernel, manually specifying drivers included in the kernel. I really wish the community were a little less hard-set on the principle of 'freedom' and a little more pragmatic; I am sure the community is smaller due to people being turned away at the sheer amount of effort r