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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • Man I have been trying to get guix to boot on my pinebook for years and the closest I ever got was successfully building a stripped down version of the installation image natively using qemu-binfmt

    It was able to boot and even install to the emmc and boot again but when I tried to guix system reconfigure it bit the dust.

    Now it “hangs” but a serial console reveals somehow the co-processors are misconfigured and the scheduler is scheduling tasks but they are timing out. Some hunting on the forums showed me somehow I need to disable the smaller cores and just boot u-boot with the main 4 and let linux handle initialization but I haven’t progressed on this front for a few weeks.

    Here is my os definition for what it’s worth.

    
    (define pinebook-os
      (operating-system
        (inherit pinebook-pro-barebones-os)
        (host-name "voyager")
        (timezone "UTC")
        (locale "en_US.utf8")
    
        (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
    		 (bootloader u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399-bootloader)
    		 (targets '("/dev/mmcblk2"))))
    
        (kernel linux-libre-lts)
    
        (kernel-arguments (list "iommu=soft"))
    
        (packages (cons* cryptsetup
    		     emacs
    		     emacs-exwm
    		     st
    		     %base-packages))
    
        (file-systems (cons*
    		   (file-system
    		    (device (file-system-label "ROOT"))
    		    (mount-point "/")
    		    (type "btrfs"))
    		   (file-system
    		     (mount-point "/boot")
    		     (device (uuid "E6FF-F73A" 'fat32))
    		     (type "vfat"))
    		   %base-file-systems))
    
        (users (cons* (user-account
    		   (name "m”)
    		   (comment "M")
    		   (group "users")
    		   (home-directory "/home/m")
    		   (supplementary-groups
    		    '("wheel"
    		      "dialout"
    		      "disk"
    		      "netdev"
    		      "audio"
    		      "tty"
    		      "kvm"
    		      "netdev"
    		      "video")))
    		  %base-user-accounts))
    
        (services
         (append (list (service dhcp-client-service-type)
    		   (service wpa-supplicant-service-type)
    		   (service openssh-service-type
    			    (openssh-configuration
    			     (openssh openssh-sans-x)
    			     (permit-root-login #f)
    			     (password-authentication? #f)
    			     (authorized-keys
    			      `(("m" ,(local-file "/home/m/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub")))))))
    	     %pinebook-base-services))
        (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss)))