NixOS on ARM/Orange Pi 5

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Revision as of 20:01, 5 June 2023 by imported>Ryan4yin

The Orange Pi 5 is a Single-Board Computer with a Rockchip RK3588s SoC.

Orange Pi 5
Manufacturer Orange Pi
Architecture AArch64
Bootloader vendor's u-boot
Startup order SPI NOR Flash, SD, NVMe
Maintainer ryan4yin

System configuration

None of the basic components (Kernel, HW acceleration drivers) are available from upstream NixOS.

Building a working system requires additional configuration.

@ryan4yin's flake

A minimal NixOS flake running on Orange Pi 5: https://github.com/ryan4yin/nixos-rk3588

The basic idea is to boot from the armbian's uboot, flash it to the SPI flash first.

Then build the NixOS's rootfs with armbian's customized kernel https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/tree/rk-5.10-rkr4.