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NixOS "support" for board-specific kernels or bootloaders

Latest comment: 21 January 20181 comment1 person in discussion

I re-worked the introduction paragraph of the article, but I have added a partly unfounded remark about NixOS being able to work with specific kernels or bootloaders. The remark is built on the fact that there is a raspberry pi specific image using a specific kernel, that it is possible to use upstream forks with fixes for the kernel. There is no documentation yet on how to use a vendor fork (e.g. allwinner non-upstream fork) for the kernel or u-boot, and no documentation on how to boot NixOS when extlinux support isn't present in the u-boot build.

--samueldr (talk) 00:12, 21 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Latest u-boot builds form Hydra

Latest comment: 3 December 20181 comment1 person in discussion

https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/jobs-tab?filter=uboot

This isn't perfect, but fresh from nixpkgs-unstable.

--samueldr (talk) 01:29, 3 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Distributed Builds

Latest comment: 11 July 20191 comment1 person in discussion

I've added a short section about using an aarch64 remote builder to speed up builds for armv6l and armv7l (With the advent of the raspberry pi 4, this is probably a relatively convenient way to run nixos on the raspberry pi 1 / raspberry pi zero(w) without suffering very long build times). It might make sense to merge it with the section on cross-compiling with qemu, which also mentions distributed builds briefly, but I wasn't sure how best to do it.

Thra11 (talk) 20:33, 11 July 2019 (UTC)Reply

Option boot.loader.grub.devices

I am currently trying to setup a Raspberry Pi and neither on the ARM installation page, the default configuration, nor this page here, does the required option "boot.loader.grub.devices" come up.

With my configuration, the system requires me to set this.

This is my configuration: https://gist.github.com/ShalokShalom/f5b190f531d354614a7319a7f3d22fc1

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-== QEMU support ==
+== NixOS "support" for board-specific kernels or bootloaders ==
-As of June 2016, the versatile build of u-boot isn't built anymore.
+I re-worked the introduction paragraph of the article, but I have added a partly unfounded remark about NixOS being able to work with specific kernels or bootloaders. The remark is built on the fact that there is [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/0676d691724b2ceebde17377fddf9bc7fcf8f5b0/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-raspberrypi.nix a raspberry pi specific image using a specific kernel], that [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/29569#issuecomment-347023896 it is possible to use upstream forks with fixes for the kernel]. There is no documentation yet on how to use a vendor fork (e.g. allwinner non-upstream fork) for the kernel or u-boot, and no documentation on how to boot NixOS when extlinux support isn't present in the u-boot build.
-Furthermore, the pre-built image is not present anymore on the mirror.
+--[[User:Samueldr|samueldr]] ([[User talk:Samueldr|talk]]) 00:12, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
-<blockquote>
+<hr />
-    U-Boot: Drop Versatile build
-    I had broken this at some point and the patch conflicts quite often.
-    Hopefully soon the Raspberry Pi 2 emulation in QEMU can be used instead.
-— https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/18572e23590f7407be60926e6d98d1a3580571c1
-</blockquote>
-Relevant edit: https://nixos.wiki/index.php?title=NixOS_on_ARM&diff=647&oldid=505
---[[User:Samueldr|Samueldr]] ([[User talk:Samueldr|talk]]) 20:01, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
-Hopefully, there will soon (U-Boot 2018.01 release, I hope) an easy way to do this: https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-August/304302.html
---[[User:Dezgeg|Dezgeg]] ([[User talk:Dezgeg|talk]]) 08:25, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
-It's coming back soon, I'll let [[User:Dezgeg|Dezgeg]] do the write-up when ready.
-Don't want to wait? [https://botbot.me/freenode/nixos/2017-11-29/?msg=94029070&page=1 Here's the IRC log on #nixos with instructions.]
+== Latest u-boot builds form Hydra ==
---[[User:Samueldr|— samueldr]] ([[User talk:Samueldr|talk]]) 01:14, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
+* https://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/trunk/jobs-tab?filter=uboot
-This has changed by now - u-boot supports QEMU's 'virt' machine (with highmem=off, though). Added to the wiki at [[NixOS_on_ARM/QEMU]] .
+This isn't perfect, but fresh from nixpkgs-unstable.
---[[User:flokli|— flokli]] ([[User talk:flokli|talk]]) 23:23, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
+--[[User:Samueldr|samueldr]] ([[User talk:Samueldr|talk]]) 01:29, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 <hr />
-== Native support for raspi in nixpkgs ==
+== Distributed Builds ==
-Since a couple of months hydra also builds nixpkgs for arm64. Additionally some configuration is already in nixpkgs for raspi2 and raspi1, however no binary cache is available.
-Raspi3 should be natively supported but right now there is no guide on how to build an image and install it.
+I've added a short section about using an aarch64 remote builder to speed up builds for armv6l and armv7l (With the advent of the raspberry pi 4, this is probably a relatively convenient way to run nixos on the raspberry pi 1 / raspberry pi zero(w) without suffering very long build times). It might make sense to merge it with the section on cross-compiling with qemu, which also mentions distributed builds briefly, but I wasn't sure how best to do it.
-There is https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-aarch64.nix but the image really is nowhere to be found.
---[[User:Makefu|Makefu]] ([[User talk:Makefu|talk]]) 08:51, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
-Added now.
+[[User:Thra11|Thra11]] ([[User talk:Thra11|talk]]) 20:33, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
---[[User:Dezgeg|Dezgeg]] ([[User talk:Dezgeg|talk]]) 18:07, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
-<hr />
+== Option boot.loader.grub.devices ==
-== NixOS "support" for board-specific kernels or bootloaders ==
+I am currently trying to setup a Raspberry Pi and neither on the ARM installation page, the default configuration, nor this page here, does the required option "boot.loader.grub.devices" come up.
-I re-worked the introduction paragraph of the article, but I have added a partly unfounded remark about NixOS being able to work with specific kernels or bootloaders. The remark is built on the fact that there is [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/0676d691724b2ceebde17377fddf9bc7fcf8f5b0/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/sd-image-raspberrypi.nix a raspberry pi specific image using a specific kernel], that [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/29569#issuecomment-347023896 it is possible to use upstream forks with fixes for the kernel]. There is no documentation yet on how to use a vendor fork (e.g. allwinner non-upstream fork) for the kernel or u-boot, and no documentation on how to boot NixOS when extlinux support isn't present in the u-boot build.
+With my configuration, the system requires me to set this.
---[[User:Samueldr|samueldr]] ([[User talk:Samueldr|talk]]) 00:12, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
+This is my configuration: https://gist.github.com/ShalokShalom/f5b190f531d354614a7319a7f3d22fc1