Taperipper

Warning

Taperipper uses quite a few experimental Rust features, as such it requires a nightly toolchain. It has been built on and tested with 1.88.0-nightly at the earliest.

Taperipper is a UEFI based Linux bootloader designed to boot modern Linux on modern hardware from 9-track reel-to-reel magnetic tape. It leverages the Squishy hardware platform to interface with SCSI based 9-track streamers to load the kernel and initramfs off of tape. As such, it's not generally useful except maybe as being gutted for other UEFI based projects.

Along with the main Taperipper loader there are two support crates, tinypng and iosevka-embedded.

The tinypng crate is a standalone no_std PNG deserialize with transparency support for embedded-graphics. It's designed to be run on larger SoC's and bare metal systems with enough grunt, and as such may not work for smaller embedded devices.

The iosevka-embedded crate is a font package to allow embedded-graphics to draw with the lovely Iosevka font by be5invis

License

The majority of the code in Taperipper is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause, the full text of which can be found in the LICENSE.BSD file.

Some components have been adapted from mycelium by Eliza Weisman, are appropriately annotated, and fall under the MIT license, the full text of which can be found in the LICENSE.MIT file.

The non-generated parts of the iosevka-embedded code are under the BSD-3-Clause. The generated data files and BDF fonts are under the OFL-1.1, the full text of which can be found in the LICENSE.OFL file.