From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon South Subject: Re: Building installation image for ROCK64 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:25:55 -0400 Message-ID: <878sj0isbw.fsf@simonsouth.net> References: <87sgh9iz1v.fsf@simonsouth.net> <877dylaty5.fsf@gmx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jNfRC-0001eE-Gi for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:26:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jNfRB-00035A-Es for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:26:26 -0400 Received: from mailout.easymail.ca ([64.68.200.34]:33900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jNfRB-00034s-Ba for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:26:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877dylaty5.fsf@gmx.com> (Pierre Langlois's message of "Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:18:10 +0200") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Langlois Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Pierre Langlois writes: > You probably noticed this takes a *long* time to run, making it quite > tedious to test changes (I believe this is being worked on though). > > In the meanwhile, what you can do instead is setup the SD card > manually... Thanks, this should be a BIG help. It takes around three hours and twenty minutes to build a new image on the ROCK64 itself which, as you say, slows down testing considerably. (I assume the main reason is that KVM support is explicitly disabled for aarch64 in gnu/system/vm.scm, but that's a separate issue.) > It was quite some back-and-forth to figure out what was needed. What I > did was to boot a different distro, I think it was Arch at the time, and > look at the dmesg output to see what drivers were loading that I didn't > see with guix. This sounds like a good plan. Thanks very much for the tips, Pierre. I'll give them all a shot and report the results. -- Simon South simon@simonsouth.net