08-31-2019, 05:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2019, 05:14 AM by Thra11.
Edit Reason: Added information on kernel used
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I've recently installed NixOS on my RockPro64, and since I've got the panfrost driver working, I thought I'd create a bootable image so that people can give it a try with minimal effort. Simply download and extract the image here and write it to an sd-card or eMMC using your favourite disk image writing tool (The image is 4.7GB, so you'll probably need an 8GB or larger SD card/eMMC). It should boot and automatically log into the KDE plasma desktop. (user is called rockpro64, password rockpro64). It uses the 5.3 ayufan-rock64/linux-mainline-kernel. It takes a minute or two to boot, so you may wish to follow its progress via the UART if you can.
This image can be used as an installer: simply follow the instructions in the NixOS wiki to create /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and run nixos-rebuild. If you'd prefer to build your own image, RockPro64-specific information can be found here.
Note: Normally, NixOS fetches most packages from a binary cache. However, since this image uses a different version of mesa, anything which depends on mesa (basically any graphical application) will be built from source.
This image can be used as an installer: simply follow the instructions in the NixOS wiki to create /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and run nixos-rebuild. If you'd prefer to build your own image, RockPro64-specific information can be found here.
Note: Normally, NixOS fetches most packages from a binary cache. However, since this image uses a different version of mesa, anything which depends on mesa (basically any graphical application) will be built from source.
