| 9 Feb 2026 |
 K900 | And I need to look at that PR again... | 11:35:45 |
 Puna | FWIW², i tried building servo on my debian installation (the nix package fails on some issues with the bundled ICU, building against system ICU gets further but then also fails on the bindgen stuff. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/471491). starts up fine and displays whatever website you passed to the command, but the window wouldn't respond to any inputs. | 11:41:52 |
| Puna | (and i haven't had the time nor energy to debug this further, wanna get the installer out of the way first) | 11:43:22 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | oh yeah i hacked around the bindgen shenanigans when i did musl servo, that one was super weird and i am unqualified to actually properly fix it i am afraid | 11:43:52 |
 Stas | 
Download IMG_20260209_124427_744.jpg | 11:44:44 |
| Stas | Tempted to get it off the shelf now, but life has other priorities :) | 11:45:05 |
| Stas | Kid did enjoy playing the OSX version of Starcraft on it | 11:46:03 |
| Puna | i won't post mine, it's considerably more messed up. dude from bavaria shipped it with just a single layer of cardboard taped around it, and DHL did its thing. 😅 | 11:47:21 |
| Puna | all the nice aluminium either has holes poked into it or has mostly broken off the frame. it's sitting on some wood blocks, otherwise it'd stand at a 45° angle. | 11:48:56 |
| Stas | I got it for 50EUR on Marketplace, while away from home. Just could not pass. Then it travelled in a car north to south almost all Europe. | 12:28:05 |
|  A. (they/them) changed their display name from Amy to A. (they/them). | 18:26:58 |
| Puna | (#exotic:nixos.org might be a better channel for this until this rolls back to being about issues with cross, but I'll reply here ig)
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/488831 is what I needed for the installer to be recognised (and for it to look nice in the boot menu)
https://github.com/OPNA2608/nixpkgs/commit/848a9e2f68e726b3727d10e759074eae3c6414e6 has the config i'm using
env "NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=$PWD:nixos-config=$PWD/newworldmac-nixos-installer.nix" nom-build ./nixos -A config.system.build.images.iso is what i've been using to build it | 19:23:32 |
| Puna | * (#exotic:nixos.org might be a better channel for this until this rolls back to being about issues with cross, but I'll reply here ig)
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/488831 is what I needed for the installer to be recognised (and for it to look nice in the boot menu).
https://github.com/OPNA2608/nixpkgs/commit/848a9e2f68e726b3727d10e759074eae3c6414e6 has the config i'm using.
env "NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=$PWD:nixos-config=$PWD/newworldmac-nixos-installer.nix" nom-build ./nixos -A config.system.build.images.iso is what i've been using to build it.
and the wip/ppc64-installer branch on my nixpkgs fork has the full nixpkgs state that i've been using to build & test everything. cherrypicked fixes from master-past-fork and staging, and relevant open PRs. | 19:31:44 |
| 10 Feb 2026 |
|  pneumatic changed their display name from ribosomerocker to pneumatic. | 10:28:26 |
|  @ashley_:matrix.org left the room. | 10:36:46 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) left the room. | 19:48:27 |
|  @janusz-bit:matrix.org left the room. | 22:42:57 |
| 11 Feb 2026 |
| Stas | Thank you! I will try it out on weekend and let you know. For now I am preparing electricity in the mancave. Wife wants me out of the bedroom with my gear :D | 06:48:00 |
| Stas | the screenshot of boot menu is epic | 11:22:49 |
| Stas | I am starting on the build | 11:23:01 |
| Stas | trying to YOLO the cross compile. If that fails, I will move to a native build or try QEMU static | 12:04:06 |
| Puna | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/473862#issuecomment-3872075407 has a change to rust-bindgen which may get you further, if you fail on smth with
Unable to generate bindings: clang diagnosed error: error: version 'abielfv1' in target triple 'powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnuabielfv1' is invalid
| 12:08:54 |
| Stas | it stopped on GRUB:
make[2]: *** [Makefile:14916: unicode.pf2] Error 1
> ./build-grub-mkfont: error while loading shared libraries: /nix/store/92k5h8m28vfmvsdn464yfbi7br8wrb55-freetype-powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnuabielfv1-2.13.3/lib/libfreetype.so.6: ELF file data encoding not little-endian
It tried to generate fonts and got confused between host and cross system it seems. No worries, I will try it on a native system on the weekend | 17:06:23 |
| Puna | i feel like i had fixed that at some point when i tried to test grub2_ieee1275 built cross… | 17:28:03 |
| Puna | ah, i must've excluded that to get rid of 10.rebuild-nixos-tests… | 17:29:48 |
| Puna | https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/5dd035f7ff49bf2ff560720e46d5505cd02e1367
try applying this | 17:30:37 |
| Puna | * ah, i must've excluded that to get rid of 10.rebuild-nixos-tests on the grub2_ieee1275 init, and then forgotten about submitting that separately… | 17:37:15 |
| Stas | applied, and re-trying | 17:59:03 |
| Puna | building the BootX with the fancy nixos flake icon cross fails. moving ppm2osbadgeicon from the let block into pkgs/by-name/pm/ppm2osbadgeicons so it doesn't try to run a cross-compiled binary should fix it… | 18:17:28 |
| 12 Feb 2026 |
| Stas | it did not get that far yet. Cross compiling libqrtr fails:
libqrtr-glib> /nix/store/w74a7hgymrh13gknfm07nmbs8nnzx625-qemu-user-10.1.2/bin/qemu-ppc64: error while loading shared libraries: /nix/store/pyzyni2iaxjq6cw58ffyr70dcf1ydav7-glib-powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnuabielfv1-2.86.3/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0: ELF file data encoding not little-endian
any direction I should look at? I am clsoe to finishing the installer cross compile | 07:58:27 |
