NixOS on ARM/ASUS Tinker Board - Revision history

Samueldr: Samueldr moved page NixOS on ARM/Tinker Board to NixOS on ARM/ASUS Tinker Board

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	== Status ==		== Status ==

			{{outdated\|Section refers to old user-provided images. Should be reviewed with cross-compilation, or native compilation through userspace emulation.}}

	'''@dezgeg''''s porting efforts to ARMv7 works on the TinkerBoard, with some modification for u-boot and DTB paths. Support for this board is a work in progress. Please contact me ([[User:tomberek\|@tomberek]]) for comments/thoughts/feedback/etc.		'''@dezgeg''''s porting efforts to ARMv7 works on the TinkerBoard, with some modification for u-boot and DTB paths. Support for this board is a work in progress. Please contact me ([[User:tomberek\|@tomberek]]) for comments/thoughts/feedback/etc.

imported>Tomberek at 03:01, 18 May 2021

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	* [[NixOS_on_ARM]]		* [[NixOS_on_ARM]]
	* [https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/ Official ASUS website]		* [https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/ Official ASUS website]
	* Some more details [https://tomberek.info/posts/Nix/2018-03-27-Nix-on-Tinker-Board.html on tomberek's post about the Tinker Board]

imported>Samueldr: Samueldr moved page NixOS on ARM/TinkerBoard to NixOS on ARM/Tinker Board: The name of the board has a space

2018-04-11T00:14:54Z

Samueldr moved page NixOS on ARM/TinkerBoard to NixOS on ARM/Tinker Board: The name of the board has a space

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imported>Tomberek at 00:41, 2 April 2018

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	It turns out that getting into U-Boot using the TinkerOS image, halting the boot process, replacing SD cards with the NixOS image fails, but the error message suggests the extlinux merely has a different name for the DTB than NixOS has packaged. Simply copy from the nixos dtb file `/boot/nixos/<hash>-dtbs/rk3288-tinker.dtb` to `rockchip-tinker_rk3288.dtb` ~~(possibly `rockchip-miniarm_rk3288.dtb`, TODO: examine U-Boot output to see what DTB it tries to read)~~.		It turns out that getting into U-Boot using the TinkerOS image, halting the boot process, replacing SD cards with the NixOS image fails, but the error message suggests the extlinux merely has a different name for the DTB than NixOS has packaged. Simply copy from the nixos dtb file `/boot/nixos/<hash>-dtbs/rk3288-tinker.dtb` to `rockchip-tinker_rk3288.dtb`.

	Then, install using the [[NixOS_on_ARM#NixOS_installation_.26_configuration\|installation and configuration steps]].		Then, install using the [[NixOS_on_ARM#NixOS_installation_.26_configuration\|installation and configuration steps]].

imported>Samueldr: Clarifies who to contact in the intro paragraph.

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	== Status ==		== Status ==

	'''@dezgeg''''s porting efforts to ARMv7 works on the TinkerBoard, with some modification for u-boot and DTB paths. Support for this board is a work in progress. Please contact me for comments/thoughts/feedback/etc.		'''@dezgeg''''s porting efforts to ARMv7 works on the TinkerBoard, with some modification for u-boot and DTB paths. Support for this board is a work in progress. Please contact me ([[User:tomberek\|@tomberek]]) for comments/thoughts/feedback/etc.

	== Board-specific installation notes ==		== Board-specific installation notes ==

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	== Resources ==		== Resources ==

	* [~~https://nixos.wiki/wiki/~~NixOS_on_ARM]		* [[NixOS_on_ARM]]
	* [https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/]		* [https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/ Official ASUS website]
	* Some more details [https://tomberek.info/posts/Nix/2018-03-27-Nix-on-Tinker-Board.html]		* Some more details [https://tomberek.info/posts/Nix/2018-03-27-Nix-on-Tinker-Board.html on tomberek's post about the Tinker Board]

imported>Tomberek: Created page with "{{ARM/breadcrumb}}
{|class="table" !colspan="2" class="title"|NixOS on TinkerBoard |- !Manufacturer |ASUS |- !Architecture |ARMv7 |- !Bootloader |Upstrea..."

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Created page with "{{ARM/breadcrumb}} <div class="infobox"> {|class="table" !colspan="2" class="title"|NixOS on TinkerBoard |- !Manufacturer |ASUS |- !Architecture |ARMv7 |- !Bootloader |Upstrea..."

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{{ARM/breadcrumb}}
<div class="infobox">
{|class="table"
!colspan="2" class="title"|NixOS on TinkerBoard
|-
!Manufacturer
|ASUS
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!Architecture
|ARMv7
|-
!Bootloader
|Upstream u-boot
|-
!Maintainer
|[[User:tomberek|tomberek]]
|}
</div>

== Status ==

'''@dezgeg''''s porting efforts to ARMv7 works on the TinkerBoard, with some modification for u-boot and DTB paths. Support for this board is a work in progress. Please contact me for comments/thoughts/feedback/etc.

== Board-specific installation notes ==

First follow the [[NixOS_on_ARM#Installation|generic installation steps]] to get the installer image on an SD card.

The Tinker Board seems to look for U-Boot at a specific offset rather than in a file. So copy the initial 4MB from the TinkerOS image and then copy it to the NixOS image while skipping the MBR/partition table in the first 512 bytes. It turns out the bootstrap section of the MBR is also needed, so copy that as well.

These commands may use either the /dev/sdX or the file images and later copied to SD cards - this was discovered iteratively, thus was performed on the sd cards directly. Use with caution. (Assumes <code>/dev/sdc</code> is TinkerOS and <code>/dev/sdb</code> is NixOS images or devices respectively).
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
dd if=/dev/sdc of=tinker_sector bs=512k count=8 status=progress # grab tinker initial sectors
dd if=tinker_sector of=/dev/sdb bs=512 skip=1 seek=1 count=8191 # copy the img and env blobs
dd of=/dev/sdb if=tinker_sector bs=428 count=1 # bootstrap code from begining of MBR
</syntaxhighlight>

It turns out that getting into U-Boot using the TinkerOS image, halting the boot process, replacing SD cards with the NixOS image fails, but the error message suggests the extlinux merely has a different name for the DTB than NixOS has packaged. Simply copy from the nixos dtb file `/boot/nixos/<hash>-dtbs/rk3288-tinker.dtb` to `rockchip-tinker_rk3288.dtb` (possibly `rockchip-miniarm_rk3288.dtb`, TODO: examine U-Boot output to see what DTB it tries to read).

Then, install using the [[NixOS_on_ARM#NixOS_installation_.26_configuration|installation and configuration steps]].

== Serial console==

Your configuration.nix will need to modify the default <code>boot.kernelParams</code> configuration to use the serial console.

{{file|/etc/nixos/configuration.nix|nix|<nowiki>
boot.kernelParams = [
"console=ttymxc0,115200n8" # HDMI?
"console=tty0" # Primary Console?
"console=ttyS1,115200n8" # Serial port?
"console=ttyS2,115200n8" # Serial port pins 8+10
];
</nowiki>}}

== TODO ==
* Build U-boot from upstream
* upload images/blobs
* host binary cache

== Resources ==

* [https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM]
* [https://www.asus.com/us/Single-Board-Computer/Tinker-Board/]
* Some more details [https://tomberek.info/posts/Nix/2018-03-27-Nix-on-Tinker-Board.html]