Pinebook pro build

Pinebook pro build

[Grant Wilson II]

I am attempting to build a bare bones image for the pinebook pro. Either
using `guix system image` or `guix system init`. I have noodled around with
many approaches but all have failed.
At the moment I am trying to cross compile this from an x86_64 system.
The following build command is failing and I am not sure why.

`guix build --target=aarch64-linux-gnu -e "(@ (gnu packages bootloaders)
u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399)"`

"
...
starting phase `set-environment'
Backtrace:
           9 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/720rvsfh0wgq2dik4jvi3m357hr…")
In ice-9/eval.scm:
   191:35  8 (_ #f)
In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
    838:2  7 (gnu-build #:source _ #:outputs _ #:inputs _ #:phases . #)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1736:10  6 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
   857:16  5 (every1 #<procedure 7ffff19d7580 at guix/build/gnu-bui…> …)
In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
   847:30  4 (_ _)
In ice-9/eval.scm:
    619:8  3 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ffff1baff00>) (# # …)))
    159:9  2 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7ffff1baff00>) (# # …)))
In unknown file:
           1 (string-append #f "/bl31.elf")
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)

ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f
builder for
`/gnu/store/rlfcsy66wi25sr75ll6b2gbx0j4sfxhs-u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399-2021.04.drv'
failed with exit code 1
build of
/gnu/store/rlfcsy66wi25sr75ll6b2gbx0j4sfxhs-u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399-2021.04.drv
failed
View build log at
'/var/log/guix/drvs/rl/fcsy66wi25sr75ll6b2gbx0j4sfxhs-u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399-2021.04.drv.bz2'.
guix build: error: build of
`/gnu/store/rlfcsy66wi25sr75ll6b2gbx0j4sfxhs-u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399-2021.04.drv'
failed
"

I am curious about this specific issue, but any suggestions on how to
accomplish my main goal of building any guixsd image for a pinebook-pro are
welcome.

Thank you!

Re: Pinebook pro build

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:06:35PM -0400, Grant Wilson II wrote:
> In unknown file:
>            1 (string-append #f "/bl31.elf")
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> 
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f

This comes from (gnu packages bootloaders):

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm?id=1eb26d0e07ad439c935b324c1ed858f50e9dcccd#n928

It seems that no value was passed for the "firmware" input.

Re: Pinebook pro build

[Grant Wilson II]

Hi Leo,

Thanks for the help!
I did take a peek at the source but did not find that it helped me
understand or fix the error.
If I interpret the source correctly, "firmware" is being provided to the
package as a native input.
When I attempt the build without cross compiling then it does succeed...
`guix build -e "(@ (gnu packages bootloaders) u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399)"`

However that does defeat the purpose.

Why would the "firmware" native input not be available when targeting
aarch64-linux-gnu?

Or perhaps that is not the correct question to ask...


On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 7:04 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:06:35PM -0400, Grant Wilson II wrote:
> > In unknown file:
> >            1 (string-append #f "/bl31.elf")
> > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> >   1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> >
> > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> > In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f
>
> This comes from (gnu packages bootloaders):
>
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm?id=1eb26d0e07ad439c935b324c1ed858f50e9dcccd#n928
>
> It seems that no value was passed for the "firmware" input.
>

Re: Pinebook pro build

[Leo Famulari]

Yeah, something isn't right.

I've CC-ed a Guix contributor with more experience with aarch64.
Hopefully they can help!

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 07:27:57PM -0400, Grant Wilson II wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> I did take a peek at the source but did not find that it helped me
> understand or fix the error.
> If I interpret the source correctly, "firmware" is being provided to the
> package as a native input.
> When I attempt the build without cross compiling then it does succeed...
> `guix build -e "(@ (gnu packages bootloaders) u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399)"`
> 
> However that does defeat the purpose.
> 
> Why would the "firmware" native input not be available when targeting
> aarch64-linux-gnu?
> 
> Or perhaps that is not the correct question to ask...
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 7:04 PM Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:06:35PM -0400, Grant Wilson II wrote:
> > > In unknown file:
> > >            1 (string-append #f "/bl31.elf")
> > > In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> > >   1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> > >
> > > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> > > In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #f
> >
> > This comes from (gnu packages bootloaders):
> >
> >
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm?id=1eb26d0e07ad439c935b324c1ed858f50e9dcccd#n928
> >
> > It seems that no value was passed for the "firmware" input.
> >

Re: Pinebook pro build

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2021-04-18, Grant Wilson II wrote:
> If I interpret the source correctly, "firmware" is being provided to the
> package as a native input.
> When I attempt the build without cross compiling then it does succeed...
> `guix build -e "(@ (gnu packages bootloaders) u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399)"`
>
> However that does defeat the purpose.
>
> Why would the "firmware" native input not be available when targeting
> aarch64-linux-gnu?

That seems to be the problem, yes...

It is failing in the set-environment phase...

(define-public u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399
...
  (add-after 'unpack 'set-environment
    (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
       (setenv "BL31" (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "firmware")
                      "/bl31.elf"))
       #t))

Works:

  guix build arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399
  guix build u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399
  guix build --target=aarch64-linux arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399

Fails:

  guix build --target=aarch64-linux u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399

So the firmware (arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399) exists, but for some
reason isn't available while cross-building. It appears to be present in
the both the cross-built and "regular" firmware package:


$ guix build --target=aarch64-linux arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399
/gnu/store/v3nkj3hiihllwp9kn65ih7xi2bjbp58v-arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399-2.4

$ guix build arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399
/gnu/store/jpm4hfqh08s9ns3pd5h3r798z7pdbp0m-arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399-2.4

$ ls /gnu/store/v3nkj3hiihllwp9kn65ih7xi2bjbp58v-arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399-2.4 /gnu/store/jpm4hfqh08s9ns3pd5h3r798z7pdbp0m-arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399-2.4

/gnu/store/jpm4hfqh08s9ns3pd5h3r798z7pdbp0m-arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399-2.4:
bl31.elf  rk3399m0.bin  rk3399m0.elf  rk3399m0pmu.bin  rk3399m0pmu.elf  share

/gnu/store/v3nkj3hiihllwp9kn65ih7xi2bjbp58v-arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399-2.4:
bl31.elf  rk3399m0.bin  rk3399m0.elf  rk3399m0pmu.bin  rk3399m0pmu.elf  share


So... I'm not very familiar with how --target=ARCH cross-building works
in guix, but that somehow appears to trigger the issue...


live well,
  vagrant

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Re: Pinebook pro build

[Leo Famulari]

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:55:05PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> So... I'm not very familiar with how --target=ARCH cross-building works
> in guix, but that somehow appears to trigger the issue...

Thanks for your analysis. I wonder if anyone else can help us further...
More pings!

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Re: Pinebook pro build

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2021-04-19, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2021-04-18, Grant Wilson II wrote:
>> If I interpret the source correctly, "firmware" is being provided to the
>> package as a native input.
>> When I attempt the build without cross compiling then it does succeed...
>> `guix build -e "(@ (gnu packages bootloaders) u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399)"`
...
> Works:
>
>   guix build arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399
>   guix build u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399
>   guix build --target=aarch64-linux arm-trusted-firmware-rk3399
>
> Fails:
>
>   guix build --target=aarch64-linux u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399
...
> So... I'm not very familiar with how --target=ARCH cross-building works
> in guix, but that somehow appears to trigger the issue...

I should also mention that arm-trusted-firmware and u-boot packages have
support for cross-building when not using --target=ARCH. e.g. Building
these packages on x86_64 builds working binaries for the aarch64 boot
firmware.

Maybe somehow the internal cross-building support is interfering with
how the --target=ARCH style cross-building works?

live well,
  vagrant

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Re: Pinebook pro build

[Leo Famulari]

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:10:01PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> I should also mention that arm-trusted-firmware and u-boot packages have
> support for cross-building when not using --target=ARCH. e.g. Building
> these packages on x86_64 builds working binaries for the aarch64 boot
> firmware.

Oooh, that's good to know!

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Re: Pinebook pro build

[Brian Woodcox]

Hi All,

I was able to create an image to run on the PineBook Pro —> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-04/msg01101.html <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-04/msg01101.html>

I haven’t updated this lately, but I have it running on 4 PineBook Pro’s.  I hope it might help you out.

Brian.



> On Apr 19, 2021, at 8:02 PM, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:10:01PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> I should also mention that arm-trusted-firmware and u-boot packages have
>> support for cross-building when not using --target=ARCH. e.g. Building
>> these packages on x86_64 builds working binaries for the aarch64 boot
>> firmware.
> 
> Oooh, that's good to know!

Re: Pinebook pro build

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:55:05PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > So... I'm not very familiar with how --target=ARCH cross-building works
> > in guix, but that somehow appears to trigger the issue...
> 
> Thanks for your analysis. I wonder if anyone else can help us further...
> More pings!

I agree with vagrant that building u-boot-* is supposed to automagically
create a working binary for whichever system it is meant for. Also I see
that there's a pinebook-pro.scm in gnu/system/images, and I was able to
build it with `guix system build --image-type=pinebook-pro-raw
gnu/system/images/pinebook-pro.scm --target=aarch64-linux-gnu`

In the past when I've built images for my pine64 I generally build a
minimal image using --target=aarch64-linux and then reconfigure on the
board with the full config. Except when test building I've never really
tried to build it piecemeal; Guix is setup to take care of all of that.


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Re: Pinebook pro build

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

I did try to get guix running on the pbp earlier, with the images, first
trying to cross-build them myself, then with the cuirass built ones.
I'm not sure I got anything working at all (no console output, serial
console problem).

I now got some time to try again, and chose a different path, seeing
that Janneke go it to work, I tried to replicate what he's done, and it
worked, I've now got guixrunning on my pbp, yay !

Some of the steps were different in my attempt, but that's not really
important, I could have done the whole thing on the pbp itself too. I
chose that because the pbp is slower (CPU and storage-wise) than
the Odroid N2.

So, what I did is the following: on an Odroid N2 with the guix binary
tarball installed over Armbian on the eMMC with the help from
guix-install.sh script.

I put /gnu on an external USB3 SSD that is way bigger and also faster
than the eMMC.

I had to make the guix-daemon use a TMPDIR in there, as the system
one was too small (2GB tmpfs):

  sudo mkdir /gnu/tmp
  sudo chmod 1777 /gnu/tmp
  sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
  sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
  # Add to "[Service]" section:
  # Environment=TMPDIR=/gnu/tmp
  sudo systemctl daemon-reload
  sudo systemctl restart guix-daemon

then plugged an sdcard and did:

  SDCARD=/dev/mmcblk1

  sudo parted -- ${SDCARD} mkpart p 0% -1
  sudo parted -- ${SDCARD} set 1 boot on
  sudo mkfs.ext4 -F ${SDCARD}p1
  sudo e2label ${SDCARD}p1 GUIXROOT
  blkid

  sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp
  sudo mount ${SDCARD}p1 /mnt/tmp

  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git
  cd guix
  git checkout wip-pinebook-pro

  guix environment guix
  ./bootstrap
  ./configure --localstatedir=/var
  make -j 7
  cp gnu/system/examples/pinebook-pro.tmpl ./config-pbp.scm
  vi config-pbp.scm
  # Set bootloader target to ${SDCARD}
  # Set filesystem / to uuid you got by the above blkid, or to label GUIXROOT
  sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix system init config-pbp.scm /mnt/tmp --fallback

I checked that he final section from Janneke's blog post was not
needed anymore

  grep DEFAULT_FDT /gnu/store/*u-boot*pinebook*/libexec/.config
  grep FDT /mnt/tmp/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
  find /mnt/tmp/gnu/store/z1kmpmyvm3shh59fsnw5v7s41bdi2fs1-linux-libre-pinebook-pro-5.10.29/lib/dtbs/
-name rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
  cat /mnt/tmp/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

  sudo umount /mnt/tmp

unplug the sdcard from the N2 and put it in the pinebook pro, turn it
on, enjoy.

Hope that report is helpful.

Many thanks to Janneke, his blog post is very nice and simple to follow.
And to the guix community for all the good work done !

Regards

-- 
Vincent Legoll