| 12 Jul 2023 |
 Pratham Patel | In reply to @alex:tunstall.xyz
$ cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00020000 00001000 "spl"
mtd1: 00300000 00001000 "uboot"
mtd2: 00100000 00001000 "data"
mtd0 has a size of 128KiB, but the latest versions of u-boot exceed that. Nothing like this, where the partition table layout breaks ;) | 17:46:46 |
| Pratham Patel | Would it be feasible to create an "installer image" for RISC-V that is similar to what one gets for x86/arm64 from nixos.org? | 18:00:20 |
 Alex | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
Would it be feasible to create an "installer image" for RISC-V that is similar to what one gets for x86/arm64 from nixos.org? It could be, but it wouldn't be very useful considering that building natively would require building 800+ derivations (and I think the kernel alone would need >20GiB of disk space while building). | 18:01:43 |
| Pratham Patel | No community supported caches until RISC-V support is merged in "mainline"? | 18:02:37 |
| Pratham Patel | My current archlinux image uses a binary cache from an arch maintainer. Arch is x86-only, while I belive NixOS isn't x86-only :) | 18:03:30 |
| Alex | It isn't, but NixOS only has official caches for {x86_64,aarch64}-{linux,darwin} | 18:04:19 |
| Alex | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
No community supported caches until RISC-V support is merged in "mainline"? Essentially, community-supported caches are the only option.
Unless someone's already gone to the trouble of building a riscv64 cache, you're out of luck. | 18:05:10 |
 [0x4A6F] | We also need powerful builders to fill these caches... | 18:05:12 |
| Pratham Patel | ah I understand it now | 18:05:40 |
| Pratham Patel | until now, I was looking for a "third party repo" which I could depend on for having riscv binaries and just pull them | 18:06:05 |
| Alex | Yeah 80k+ packages aren't going to build overnight on a quad-core 1GHz processor | 18:06:09 |
| Pratham Patel | Are they really 80k+ different packages? | 18:06:36 |
| Pratham Patel | Imagine the hardwork in just bumping their versions lol | 18:06:51 |
