| 8 Apr 2025 |
 Tristan Ross | 🤷♂️ | 19:18:32 |
| Tristan Ross | Idk | 19:18:38 |
 Michal | Well I suppose there'll be some fun edge cases for me to test once I get my hands on one of those | 19:18:53 |
| Tristan Ross | Yeah, the RISC-V world is interesting lol | 19:19:16 |
| Michal | Yeah haha, feels a lot more like booting up a game you've never played with the whole feeling of "well, let's see what works!" rather than the usual tried-and-tested stuff with x86 and even ARM nowadays | 19:21:34 |
| Tristan Ross | So RISC-V is supposed to be easier than ARM with the standards but things need to bake more lol. | 19:27:02 |
| Michal | Yeah, it definitely still feels like early days of the architecture, but then again, about a decade or so ago ARM was kinda in the same space | 19:27:43 |
 Alex | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
Yeah, NVME boot doesn't work when I've tried NVMe boot is possible, a few of us have it working (I needed to customise the u-boot rules, can't remember what I changed). | 19:45:37 |
| Alex | In reply to @michal:tar.black
Yeah, wouldn't expect it to be crazy, can it boot from an EMMC module fine-ish? I do recall seeing space for one when putting the case on it Yes, it can. | 19:45:49 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @alex:tunstall.xyz
NVMe boot is possible, a few of us have it working (I needed to customise the u-boot rules, can't remember what I changed). The problem I have is the initrd cannot find the NVME despite having the drivers | 19:46:14 |
| Tristan Ross | https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/issues/1347#issue-2812099176 | 19:49:03 |
| Tristan Ross | * https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/issues/1347 | 19:49:10 |
| Alex | In reply to @michal:tar.black
How is NixOS with the VisionFive2 currently? Just had it arrive earlier today and was thinking of NixOS-ing it :) It works. I haven't been able to get uptimes beyond 2 weeks, but that might just be overheating (thermal throttling is broken in the kernels I use).
Don't expect great performance. And don't expect to be able to get perfectly working HDMI (maybe just a kernel issue?). | 19:49:16 |
| Michal | Yes, afaik HDMI is one of the only things left to merge into the mainline kernel from what I've read | 19:49:46 |
| Alex | I've tried the module from an older version of the patches and it didn't properly work. Even the vendor image would sometimes change the screen colours suddenly. | 19:51:26 |
| 9 Apr 2025 |
 dramforever | Tristan Ross: have you tried the "generic-extlinux-compatible" boot for nvme? it seems to be a devicetree problem | 02:50:06 |
| dramforever | the one you installed to nvme is somehow loading the device tree | 02:54:53 |
| dramforever | * whatever you installed to nvme is somehow loading the device tree | 02:56:18 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @dramforever:matrix.org
Tristan Ross: have you tried the "generic-extlinux-compatible" boot for nvme? it seems to be a devicetree problem Only UEFI | 03:05:54 |
| dramforever | Tristan Ross: Try hardware.deviceTree.name = "starfive/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-v1.3b.dtb"; (or v1.2a, depending on what your board is) | 03:07:43 |
| dramforever | u-boot -> efi -> systemd-boot doesn't seem to support picking the right dtb file based on system name | 03:08:13 |
| dramforever | where did your devicetree even come from... | 03:17:03 |
| Tristan Ross | Idk | 03:17:23 |
| Tristan Ross | NixOS hardware is used | 03:17:31 |
| dramforever | can you paste the output of fdt print / from uboot somewhere | 03:18:56 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @dramforever:matrix.org
can you paste the output of fdt print / from uboot somewhere Maybe in like 3 months lol | 03:22:01 |
| Tristan Ross | If you respond to the issue, I'll get to it when I have time | 03:22:16 |
| dramforever | lol | 03:22:19 |
| dramforever | i'll put it in the issue | 03:22:26 |
| dramforever | 
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