Official NixOS Support for Teres has been submitted!

Started by kreyren, July 04, 2023, 02:13:17 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

kreyren

* Maintainer of OLIMEX Teres-A64 on Armbian and NixOS
* Co-Author of an Official OLIMEX Teres-A64 support for Parabola GNU/Linux
* Author of an Official OLIMEX Teres-A64 support for GNU Guix
* World record holder in annoying Tsvetan with questions about OLIMEX Teres-A64 hacking

LubOlimex

Great news and amazing artwork! Hope it gets approved and accepted.
Technical support and documentation manager at Olimex

kreyren

People keep asking me to why was it not merged:

The arm on nixos is basically managed by one guy who has a political ideology and management to promote his alternative bootloader solution and tbh crazy ideas which would make teres to not really work well at the cost of code quality.

I am trying to find a common ground with him atm and worst case I provide an overlay. In the meantime you can use the merge request to build u-boot and follow the instructions from the wiki to get teres to some-what work on NixOS, but i currently wouldn't recommend it as it's very unstable.

To work on NixOS I need a stable distribution which is why i was mostly working on arbiam now and since it seems to be in a robust enough state it should allow me to work on NixOS support now. I will report back with any news
* Maintainer of OLIMEX Teres-A64 on Armbian and NixOS
* Co-Author of an Official OLIMEX Teres-A64 support for Parabola GNU/Linux
* Author of an Official OLIMEX Teres-A64 support for GNU Guix
* World record holder in annoying Tsvetan with questions about OLIMEX Teres-A64 hacking