NixOS on ARM/Radxa ROCK5 Model B: Difference between revisions

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Support of this system is YMMV (your mileage may vary), and depends on vendor-provided BSP (Board Support Package) based components.
Support of this system is YMMV (your mileage may vary), and depends on vendor-provided BSP (Board Support Package) based components.


== Platform firmware ==
== Platform Firmware ==


Repo for building Platform Firmware: https://github.com/samueldr/Tow-Boot/tree/wip/rock5-vendor
=== Vendor Platform Firmware ===
 
Booting the system with the vendor-provided platform firmware may not work due to a [https://github.com/samueldr/u-boot/commit/a0af72272b8db4b5d83df2f14ad950d3e30b3e04 known issue in older U-Boot].
 
If using the vendor-provided platform firmware is desired, [https://gitlab.com/K900/nix/-/blob/1ae5db476aee96fab9c445d7b690a8f5cf7fbe75/hacks/orangepi5/kernel/default.nix#L20 renaming the kernel derivation to a shorter name] should allow boot to succeed.
 
=== Community Repo ===
 
A WIP tree to build U-Boot using the infrastructure for Tow-Boot is available.
 
* https://github.com/samueldr/Tow-Boot/tree/wip/rock5-vendor
 
This uses [https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/compare/d892cca08d5da230a6690f504ba7a06044b840c8...samueldr:u-boot:wip/rock5/not-tb-2023-03-29 a fork with some fixes], so that an installation on the SPI Flash will work, and allow booting from eMMC or SD. NVMe was not successfully validated yet (issues likely hardware-specific).


To build:  
To build: