| 21 Apr 2026 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.how | okay now this is a musl moment | 17:14:26 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | This has been an issue for quite a long time now actually, do you have a workaround Grimmauld (any/all) ? | 17:21:50 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | unsure what actually caused the breakage, but it's libmount in util-linux that is the culprit I believe | 17:22:05 |
| 22 Apr 2026 |
 Lukas | Has anyone here tried to build a NixOS image for PowerPC 32 bit? | 13:25:58 |
 Puna | Marie had it running on a wii u at some point at least
https://chaos.social/@marie/115119276423525387 | 13:41:57 |
| Lukas | Very cool | 13:49:07 |
| Lukas | I was able to build a filesystem image but I'm struggling to make U-Boot load the kernel. So far, I only tried running it in QEMU, not on real hardware | 13:50:52 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | That is incredible | 19:13:56 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I have a wii u I could get it running on too | 19:14:03 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | is that code still around ? | 19:14:07 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I could make a module and make this easy for people | 19:15:03 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | why not go for the nintendo 64 next | 19:16:49 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I actually have a wii-u, do you have the code Puna | 20:33:13 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I will install it just for a laugh | 20:33:17 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | it is just gathering dust | 20:33:23 |
| Puna | i don't, ppc32 is not my focus | 20:33:31 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Ah right, sorry I mistook you for the author | 20:33:47 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | didn't realise it was marie | 20:33:50 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I'm sure they'll see the message eventually :D | 20:34:00 |
| 23 Apr 2026 |
 Marie | https://codeberg.org/marie/nixos-wii-u | 07:11:43 |
| Marie | it's not as polished as i wanted it to be, some patches are still not upstreamed iirc | 07:12:01 |
| Marie | haven't worked on it for a while | 07:12:10 |
| Marie | need to find some time to work on it again, it was really fun | 07:12:48 |
| Marie | feel free to ping me if you have questions or need help getting it to run | 07:13:37 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Oh yeah so my question was, how do you get it to load the kernel | 11:56:39 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | There's no u-boot, so what is used instead? | 11:56:58 |
| Puna | petitboot | 11:57:39 |
| Puna | https://linux-wiiu.org/install#booting
- Linux will load into “Petitboot”, the linux-wiiu bootloader. Give it a moment and your USB, SD card etc. should appear with the name of the distribution.
| 12:01:03 |
| Marie | you can use petitboot, but the project has its own loader which can chainload petitboot, but booting the kernel directly worked better for me | 12:38:19 |
| Marie | my project supports both | 12:38:26 |
