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Various: Add support for raspberry pi 4. #66834

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@tkerber tkerber commented Aug 18, 2019

Motivation for this change

Run NixOS on the Raspberry Pi 4B #63720.

This pull request has breaking changes that need feedback!

Changes Mage:

  • Bumped WiFi and boot firmware for the raspberry pi.
  • Updated the default raspberry pi bootloader to work with the rpi4.
  • Bumped the kernel. This encountered an interesting issue: The raspberry pi currently has a single kernel image: linux_rpi, which uses different defconfig settings depending on architecture. The rpi4 has the same architecture as the rpi3, but should use a different defconfig setting. I cannot see how to modify the current kernel package backwards-compatibly to do this. As a result, I've split it into several. Feedback on this would be good. It will break any existing builds using this kernel.

Outstanding issues:

  • Uboot support is not available upstream, as far as I can tell.
  • The raspberry pi sdcard build is broken, both due to the lack of uboot, and because the issue of selecting the correct kernel.
Things done
  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.
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tkerber commented Aug 18, 2019

Closing due to the upstream kernel still having memory issues.

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