| 1 Jan 2025 |
|  jopejoe1 changed their display name from jopejoe1 [4094] to jopejoe1. | 23:29:29 |
|  scm left the room. | 23:53:47 |
| 4 Jan 2025 |
 Tristan Ross | Why does nixos-hardware use the upstream u-boot instead of the Starfive fork for the VisionFive 2? I'm looking to boot from an NVME and it looks like using the fork would be better. | 15:59:03 |
 Alex | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
Why does nixos-hardware use the upstream u-boot instead of the Starfive fork for the VisionFive 2? I'm looking to boot from an NVME and it looks like using the fork would be better. Upstream is usually a better choice when the hardware support you need has been merged. For extra hardware, applying patches onto upstream is a decent option because it helps test the patches before they get merged. | 18:09:33 |
| Tristan Ross | Yeah, I made this PR https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/pull/1296 to make overriding those things easier | 18:10:18 |
| Tristan Ross | After running into a few things which don't like RISC-V or cross compiling (lsd, nix output monitor, Prism Launcher, and lua-language-server), I seem to be making good progress. | 19:04:27 |
| Alex | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
After running into a few things which don't like RISC-V or cross compiling (lsd, nix output monitor, Prism Launcher, and lua-language-server), I seem to be making good progress. nix-output-monitor can be compiled if you can provide Nixpkgs a boot GHC | 21:00:11 |
| Tristan Ross | lol, I'm too lazy to go through that effort | 21:00:33 |
| Tristan Ross | I'm just trying to get my config to build for the first time via cross from aarch64 to riscv64 | 21:00:54 |
| Tristan Ross | Also, the VisionFive 2 isn't that powerful so not like I'm going to be doing much on it | 21:01:25 |
| 5 Jan 2025 |
| Tristan Ross | Successful build of my config for the VF2, time to try and get it building with COSMIC. | 02:33:37 |
| Tristan Ross | 330 builds | 02:35:29 |
| Tristan Ross | I couldn't get COSMIC but I did get my system to build and boot | 05:52:25 |
| Tristan Ross | jegan% lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mtdblock0 31:0 0 960K 0 disk
mtdblock1 31:1 0 64K 0 disk
mtdblock2 31:2 0 15M 0 disk
mmcblk1 179:0 0 238.3G 0 disk
Ãmmcblk1p1 179:1 0 2M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p2 179:2 0 4M 0 part
└─mmcblk1p3 179:3 0 238.3G 0 part /nix/store
/
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
Looks like the NVME is present
| 05:52:39 |
| Alex | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
jegan% lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mtdblock0 31:0 0 960K 0 disk
mtdblock1 31:1 0 64K 0 disk
mtdblock2 31:2 0 15M 0 disk
mmcblk1 179:0 0 238.3G 0 disk
Ãmmcblk1p1 179:1 0 2M 0 part
├─mmcblk1p2 179:2 0 4M 0 part
└─mmcblk1p3 179:3 0 238.3G 0 part /nix/store
/
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
Looks like the NVME is present
NB: this doesn't mean it's bootable. | 07:53:46 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @alex:tunstall.xyz
NB: this doesn't mean it's bootable. I know, I'll need to pull in the Starfive OpenSBI and u-boot according to the forums. | 14:42:25 |
| Tristan Ross | It's at least progress, when I tried this in the past it wasn't even showing up in lsblk. | 14:43:00 |
| Alex | Probably because the kernel you'd built at the time didn't have the patches needed for PCIe. | 16:15:32 |
| Tristan Ross | Yeah, I'm currently trying to update to the VisionFive2 v5.13.1 software | 16:42:17 |
| Tristan Ross | https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases/tag/JH7110_VF2_515_v5.13.1 | 16:42:22 |
| Tristan Ross | It seems the v3.x.x set fixed a few of the issues for NVMEs | 16:43:35 |
| Tristan Ross | But it'll probably be better to work with the latest stuff | 16:43:52 |
| Tristan Ross | /nix/store/bq0afwrmhgy6hxx7amh7sv59gzclzmxi-riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-binutils-2.43.1/bin/riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: warning: u-boot-spl has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions
OBJCOPY spl/u-boot-spl-nodtb.bin
SYM spl/u-boot-spl.sym
COPY spl/u-boot-spl.bin
Running phase: installPhase
@nix { "action": "setPhase", "phase": "installPhase" }
cp: cannot stat 'spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat 'u-boot.itb': No such file or directory
Huh, the files u-boot is trying to install don't exist
| 16:53:13 |
| Tristan Ross | Oh, the nvme doesn't show up if your USB C power supply isn't capable enough lol. | 19:23:43 |
 @blitz:chat.x86.lol | I would love to have time to work on RISC-V stuff again, but that probably only happens if someone needs professional help :( | 22:39:20 |
| Tristan Ross | Damn my config is too big to eval on the VF2, I had to make a 32GB swap file and it's starting to make more progress. | 23:50:25 |
| Alex | Are you evaluating multiple versions of Nixpkgs?
Needing more than 4 GiB for NixOS evaluation is very unusual... | 23:51:28 |
| 6 Jan 2025 |
| Tristan Ross | I don't think so | 00:04:10 |
| Tristan Ross | https://github.com/RossComputerGuy/dotfiles/blob/master/flake.nix#L213-L215 | 00:04:43 |
| Tristan Ross | Dang, 30 - 40 minutes to eval until I got a GHC error | 00:21:47 |
