| 21 Jun 2025 |
|  GenericNerdyUsername joined the room. | 18:59:54 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | Whats the absolute bare minimum riscv config nixos would need to get something on screen? | 20:03:27 |
 Alex | In reply to @genericnerdyusername:matrix.org
Whats the absolute bare minimum riscv config nixos would need to get something on screen? Depends on your hardware. | 20:37:16 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | i think i phrased that badly | 20:37:39 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | whats the minimum hardware that nixos needs? | 20:37:49 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | like do you need the floating point extensions? | 20:37:59 |
| Alex | In reply to @genericnerdyusername:matrix.org
whats the minimum hardware that nixos needs? If you don't plan to evaluate Nixpkgs on the machine, anything that can run Linux will do.
It's pretty hard (but still possible) to trim the system below a few hundred MiBs of disk usage. | 20:39:34 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | and if you do want to evaluate nixpkgs? | 20:39:55 |
| Alex | Nixpkgs takes a fair bit of memory to evaluate.
I can't recall, but it's probably on the order of a few hundred MiB minimum.
I've seen some evals go beyond 1 GiB, though I think most cases aren't that large. | 20:41:31 |
| Alex | In reply to @genericnerdyusername:matrix.org
like do you need the floating point extensions? Probably not needed. | 20:44:16 |
 fgaz | In reply to @alex:tunstall.xyz
Nixpkgs takes a fair bit of memory to evaluate.
I can't recall, but it's probably on the order of a few hundred MiB minimum.
I've seen some evals go beyond 1 GiB, though I think most cases aren't that large. 4 GB if you want to nix search 🫠| 20:44:28 |
| Alex | ^ Requires evaluating all of Nixpkgs lol | 20:44:43 |
| fgaz | In reply to @alex:tunstall.xyz
^ Requires evaluating all of Nixpkgs lol i'm still of the opinion that it doesn't need to and could do with a small fraction of that https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-search-a-faster-better-nix-search/48568/19 | 20:49:00 |
| Alex | It absolutely shouldn't need to (e.g. why not pre-evaluate it into a DB you can quickly search).
But it does. | 20:49:50 |
| fgaz | it does pre-eval on the first search you perform. but even that first search shouldn't require all that memory, see the post I linked above | 20:51:03 |
| fgaz | or did you mean a downloadable db? | 20:51:39 |
| Alex | It could be downloaded.
That's just an idea of one way of implementing it. There are probably others.
And yeah, I can imagine how it could be possible to trim a lot of the memory usage if you only evaluate the metadata you need and not the whole derivation graph. | 21:05:24 |
| GenericNerdyUsername | like nix-index? | 21:15:22 |
| 22 Jun 2025 |
|  SomeoneSerge (back on matrix) changed their display name from SomeoneSerge (UTC+U[-12,12]) to SomeoneSerge (Ever OOMed by Element). | 12:15:03 |
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 Tristan Ross | After a month, my VisionFive2 has finished building a graphical version of my config. It has COSMIC now and ssh should work. | 15:01:19 |
| Tristan Ross | It also went from 25.05 to 25.11 | 15:05:27 |
 dramforever | MONTH | 16:53:27 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @dramforever:matrix.org
MONTH Yes, it really took that long. It finished some time last night since it only had 30 derivations to finish. | 17:05:48 |
| 23 Jun 2025 |
| Tristan Ross | Has anyone gotten graphics to work on the VisionFive2? I'm using the nixos-hardware module. | 05:33:20 |
| dramforever | it doesn't work, the HDMI driver is not in mainline | 10:40:06 |
| dramforever | (yes, you've been using mainline linux on your vf2 this whole time) | 10:40:33 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @dramforever:matrix.org
it doesn't work, the HDMI driver is not in mainline What about the fork? Would that work? | 12:30:01 |
| Alex | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
What about the fork? Would that work? If you mean the vendor's branch, in my experience no.
(The "upstream" branch runs into a kernel panic on boot when HDMI is connected. The "dev" branch is a nightmare to compile.) | 13:23:44 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @alex:tunstall.xyz
If you mean the vendor's branch, in my experience no.
(The "upstream" branch runs into a kernel panic on boot when HDMI is connected. The "dev" branch is a nightmare to compile.) Oh, that's cursed | 13:50:10 |
