| 27 Jan 2025 |
 liberodark | But i want to give this onto builder for free. | 14:26:35 |
 Alex | Could you explain exactly what you're trying to do? Run NixOS on your VF2? | 14:26:58 |
| liberodark | Exactely | 14:27:10 |
| liberodark | For build app natively. | 14:27:38 |
| Alex | From Debian 13, you can follow the vendor's instructions to write the SPL into flash. | 14:27:40 |
| liberodark | You have generated iso on your side ? | 14:28:13 |
| liberodark | or img ? | 14:28:18 |
| Alex | In reply to @misuzu:matrix.org
You can try these images https://github.com/misuzu/nixos-vf2/releases/tag/0.8
But you'll need upstream u-boot on spi
I'm using https://github.com/misuzu/nixos-vf2/releases/download/0.7/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out https://github.com/misuzu/nixos-vf2/releases/download/0.7/visionfive2_fw_payload.img See this message | 14:28:27 |
| Alex | The nixos-native-*.img.zstd needs to be inflated and can then be flashed onto the disk (not onto a partition). | 14:30:19 |
| liberodark | native is native build & cross is cross-build ? | 14:50:21 |
 misuzu | Yep, both should work | 14:53:30 |
| liberodark | Ok im go to test tonight. | 14:55:38 |
| misuzu | They use mainline kernel and mainline kernel doesn't have hdmi support so you'll have to use uart or ssh | 14:58:39 |
| Alex | HDMI on the vendor's upstream branch is (was?) completely broken too.
The vendor images with working HDMI use some older version and have disabled most of the kernel flags. | 16:40:33 |
| Alex | * HDMI on the vendor's "upstream" branch is (was?) completely broken too.
The vendor images with working HDMI use some older Linux version and have disabled most of the kernel flags. | 16:41:05 |
| liberodark | Yep have see is not upstream that not really good for now. | 18:02:25 |
| liberodark | Probably better to use specific kernel for that | 18:02:44 |
| liberodark | On my side im use this : https://github.com/MichaIng/linux | 18:06:40 |
| liberodark | Also you can use 6.13 & HDMI patch directly. | 18:08:32 |
| liberodark | Just to be sure that is correct way : | 19:24:08 |
| liberodark | Download image :
wget https://github.com/misuzu/nixos-vf2/releases/download/0.8/nixos-native-jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-v1.3b.img.zstd
Extract image :
zstd -d nixos-native-jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-v1.3b.img.zstd
Prepare Disk
nix-shell -p gptfdisk
sgdisk -g --clear --set-alignment=1 \
--new=1:4096:8191 --change-name=1:'spl' \
--typecode=1:2e54b353-1271-4842-806f-e436d6af6985 \
--new=2:8192:40959 --change-name=2:'opensbi-uboot' \
--typecode=2:5b193300-fc78-40cd-8002-e86c45580b47 \
--new=3:40960:+256M --change-name=3:'efi' \
--typecode=3:C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B \
--largest-new=4 --change-name=4:'root' \
/dev/sdb
Download files :
wget https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases/download/JH7110_VF2_515_v5.13.1/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out
wget https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive2/releases/download/JH7110_VF2_515_v5.13.1/visionfive2_fw_payload.img
Copy files :
dd if=u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4096 status=progress
dd if=visionfive2_fw_payload.img of=/dev/sdb2 bs=4096 status=progress
Install NixOS
losetup -P /dev/loop0 nixos-native-jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-v1.3b.img
dd if=/dev/loop0p1 of=/dev/sdb3 bs=1M status=progress
dd if=/dev/loop0p2 of=/dev/sdb4 bs=1M status=progress
losetup -d /dev/loop0
| 19:25:16 |
| misuzu | Just dd is fine | 19:25:46 |
| liberodark | Or have missing something ? | 19:25:57 |
| misuzu | You need u-boot on spi for booting from nvme | 19:26:22 |
| liberodark | I can boot on debian so that confirm u-boot is ok for nixos or not . | 19:27:02 |
| liberodark | * I can boot on debian so that confirm u-boot is ok for nixos or not ? | 19:27:03 |
| liberodark | nixos need specific u-boot version ? | 19:27:17 |
| misuzu | I've only tested upstream u-boot | 19:28:03 |
| liberodark | Is not booting for me ☹️ | 19:30:26 |
| liberodark | And firmware is updated | 19:30:42 |
