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| theelevated | Is there a guide on how to run nixos on non standard arch like arm and riscv? How to compile linux manuelly and deploy it. | 19:54:22 |
 K900 | We support aarch64 and to some extent risc-v | 19:59:39 |
| K900 | So it really depends on what you're actually looking to do | 19:59:57 |
| 22 Aug 2024 |
| theelevated | Redacted or Malformed Event | 07:50:14 |
| theelevated | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
So it really depends on what you're actually looking to do A gentoo like experience which is quickly depolyable (nixos) with a custom mirror and Repo since the device is ressource tight not being able to compile on its own. | 07:50:29 |
| theelevated | So a ressource stronger device can be the mirror and compile with custom flags | 07:52:07 |
| theelevated | Its for a riscv device | 07:52:13 |
 ElvishJerricco | theelevated: the big problem with most non-x86 devices is just getting them to start a boot loader, which is rarely standardized unless you're dealing with server hardware. Once you have that working, it's just normal nixos stuff mostly. | 08:08:42 |
 magic_rb | Once you get into a running system, then a normal nixos-rebuild --target-host will suffice. Problem is getting into a running system | 08:35:43 |
| magic_rb | Do you happen to have a functional kernel+uboot available? Can be from a different distro, it doesnt matter from where, you just need the source code and hopefully some documentation, but that is also optional with enough determination. | 08:36:33 |
| magic_rb | The kernel should also be relatively recent, though technically it should be possible to make anything 4.4+ work to some degree, id avoid any kernels marked as vendor and those tend to have very nonstandard patches and interfaces. | 08:38:32 |
| magic_rb | * The kernel should also be relatively recent, though technically it should be possible to make anything 4.4+ work to some degree, id avoid any kernels marked as vendor as those tend to have very nonstandard patches and interfaces. | 08:38:47 |
| magic_rb | And ideal kernel would be 6.0+ which is called something like main or mainline which generally means its a very close fork of mainline linux that is hopefully in the process of being upstreamed | 08:39:30 |
| theelevated | In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org
theelevated: the big problem with most non-x86 devices is just getting them to start a boot loader, which is rarely standardized unless you're dealing with server hardware. Once you have that working, it's just normal nixos stuff mostly. I have some https://milkv.io/duo and they can boot their own 1st party linux. | 08:49:46 |
| theelevated | How to crosscompile everything from a x86, image it and boot the chip | 08:50:08 |
| theelevated | then I need a custom repo with my pc on lan as a mirror. | 08:50:21 |
| ElvishJerricco | you're skipping a step | 08:50:35 |
| ElvishJerricco | you need to understand how they get their own linux image to boot | 08:50:49 |
| ElvishJerricco | that's the part that's not normally standardized | 08:51:16 |
| K900 | It's also 256MB of RAM | 08:51:19 |
| K900 | Which is going to be Not Great for a full size NixOS system | 08:51:26 |
| K900 | Maybe something very minimal like openwrt or yocto would work better | 08:51:42 |
| magic_rb | Oh yeah 256 is not great for nixos | 08:56:25 |
| ElvishJerricco | I wouldn't be surprised if you can get a minimal nixos install to boot on 256M, but you're definitely not going to be running nixos-rebuild or anything on it. You're almost certainly not even going to be able to target it from another machine with nixos-rebuild --target-host given how much memory copying NARs takes. So you'd be stuck with building images on another machine and flashing them to a drive, and then hoping 256M is still enough for nixos and your actual application | 08:58:20 |
