1.5 KiB
WIP stuff to get started on the pinebook pro.
u-boot
Assuming /dev/mmcblk0 is an SD card.
$ nix-build -A pkgs.uBootPinebookPro
$ lsblk /dev/mmcblk0 && sudo dd if=result/idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 seek=64 oflag=direct,sync && sudo dd if=result/u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 seek=16384 oflag=direct,sync
The eMMC has to be zeroed (in the relevant sectors) or else the RK3399 will use the eMMC as a boot device first.
Alternatively, this u-boot can be installed to the eMMC.
Installing to SPI has yet to be investigated.
Image build
$ ./build.sh
$ lsblk /dev/mmcblk0 && sudo dd if=$(echo result/sd-image/*.img) of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=8M oflag=direct status=progress
The build.sh script transmits parameters to nix-build, so e.g. -j0 can
be used.
Once built, this image is self-sufficient, meaning that it should already be booting, no need burn u-boot to it.
Though, the current setup will dump the output to the serial console by
default. This means that without serial output (or editing nixos/sd-image-aarch64.nix)
only a flashing caret will be shown on the display during boot, and this may
stay there for a while during the filesystem expansion process.
Note about cross-compilation
This will automatically detect the need for cross-compiling or not.
When cross-compiled, all caveats apply. Here this mainly means that the kernel will need to be re-compiled on the device on the first nixos-rebuild switch, while most other packages can be fetched from the cache.