2013/3/19 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:08:43AM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote: >> 2013/3/18 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]> >> > Sorry, I missed the last points of the discussion about cross-compiling >> > for the >> > pi. What's the issue? >> >> Right, I am talking about cross-compiling, not native building. Looks >> like it is not a simple task, but luckily my idea is not to build >> whole NixOS in that way (as I wrote in my previous letter, sorry for >> that). Actually, I'd be happy to get the following: >> 1) cross-toolchain (I feel I know how to build it already) >> 2) the kernel + bootloader (actually, do I need to build a bootloader? >> can RPi boot the kernel directly?) >> 3) busybox >> 4) several other packages, preferably, a webserver >> (Note, that on this stage I don't need nix-env running on a device.) >> >> Then I'd like to develop a method to flash the SD with the binaries, I >> think it could be much like preparing an iso image. And I am not >> familiar with RPi's booting process. wiki says that there is a >> situation with vfat.. still I hope that setting up busybox should be >> possible, is it? > > The only cross-built nix-based whole-OS I know is the nanonixos: > http://viric.name/cgi-bin/nanonixos/ > > I don't touch it since long. It's a very simple system, and prepares an ubifs > image. > >> Cool, I didn't notice that, thanks! I see, the mainline solution is to >> go and build natively and to setup a distcc to speedup the process. Do >> we have full-featured nix-env/nix-store running on the device that >> way? > > Sure, but that's a natively built system. > > I'm building a new image these days, to match nixpkgs master. > > Regards, > Lluís.
Lluís, at first glance, nanonixos is what I expected to find. Thanks a lot, it is a perfect example! Sergey _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
