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22 Apr 2026
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howdidn't realise it was marie20:33:50
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howI'm sure they'll see the message eventually :D20:34:00
23 Apr 2026
@marie:marie.cologneMarie https://codeberg.org/marie/nixos-wii-u 07:11:43
@marie:marie.cologneMarieit's not as polished as i wanted it to be, some patches are still not upstreamed iirc07:12:01
@marie:marie.cologneMariehaven't worked on it for a while07:12:10
@marie:marie.cologneMarieneed to find some time to work on it again, it was really fun07:12:48
@marie:marie.cologneMariefeel free to ping me if you have questions or need help getting it to run07:13:37
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howOh yeah so my question was, how do you get it to load the kernel11:56:39
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howThere's no u-boot, so what is used instead?11:56:58
@opna2608:matrix.orgPunapetitboot11:57:39
@opna2608:matrix.orgPuna

https://linux-wiiu.org/install#booting

  1. Linux will load into “Petitboot”, the linux-wiiu bootloader. Give it a moment and your USB, SD card etc. should appear with the name of the distribution.
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@marie:marie.cologneMarieyou can use petitboot, but the project has its own loader which can chainload petitboot, but booting the kernel directly worked better for me12:38:19
@marie:marie.cologneMariemy project supports both12:38:26
@marie:marie.cologneMariekind of12:38:28
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.how @marie:marie.cologne can you continue to load the IOS of the Wii U? 13:42:31
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howLike a dual boot?13:42:37
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howI would be interested in using nixos modules to configure the IOS13:43:56
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howLike nix-darwin or nix-on-droid13:44:31
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howFor this you would write activation scripts that manipulate the data on the IOS partition, if that's still available that is13:44:59
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howI've always been interested in homebrew software too13:45:08
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howEven better if you can execute something from within Linux to boot into the IOS like kexec13:46:02
@matthewcroughan:defenestrate.itmatthewcroughan - nix.howThen you have turned the Linux side into a glorified bootloader for the IOS13:46:13
@marie:marie.cologneMarie yes 15:52:24
@marie:marie.cologneMarieyou just chainload the whole thing from aroma15:52:33
@marie:marie.cologneMarie good luck, but probably not 15:53:16
@marie:marie.cologneMariealso, activation scripts 👎️15:53:28
26 Apr 2026
@lotte:chir.rsLotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ&i somehow managed to build ghc for riscv with multithreading disabled and with both the ngc and llvm disabled ???12:45:15
@lotte:chir.rsLotte (it/its)/Cinny (she/her) θΔ&* i somehow managed to build ghc for riscv with multithreading disabled and with both the ncg and llvm disabled ???12:45:45
@alexfmpe:matrix.orgalexfmpeghc that compiles for riscv or actually compiled for running on riscv?16:45:36
@alexfmpe:matrix.orgalexfmpeIIRC I've done the former for recent versions, but the later I'm told doesn't work after 9.416:46:20

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