<gchristensen>
Dezgeg: I noticed that the `tested` jobset fails to evaluate on hydra for aarch64 because of a hard dependency on syslinux somewhere. I wonder what it'd take to fix that, which would then help show a clear TODO for getting nixos channel advancements on it
<Dezgeg>
well, for syslinux you just have to drop the dependencies that use it (which is the ISO I presume)
<gchristensen>
can we produce an aarch64 iso without it?
<Dezgeg>
probably, but I don't know of any aarch64 systems that can boot ISOs :P
<gchristensen>
really...?
<gchristensen>
well, let's remove the iso for now from the tested jobset
<Dezgeg>
also there are already some RPi3 image expressions on the repo that are not hooked to release.nix in any way
<Dezgeg>
but I guess in general release.nix needs a bunch of refactoring to get the x86-isms out
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<grw>
hi all- anyone know why gcc-arm-embedded < 6 uses callPackage_i686 instead of callPackage ?
<grw>
is aarch64 not supported intentionally or needs work?
<gchristensen>
aarch64 support is "in progress"
<Dezgeg>
I think they download precompiled binaries
<gchristensen>
this channel is mostly for hacking on the problems with our current aarch64 support
<grw>
ah, i see
<grw>
no gcc-arm-embedded for aarch64 seems like a problem!
<grw>
sorry if off-topic
<gchristensen>
it seems definitely on-topic
<gchristensen>
but I think there is a good list of fairly foundational problems already so that one might not be at the top of the list for a while :P
<gchristensen>
Dezgeg: have you tried installing nix from a tarball provided by hydra?
<grw>
alright, i wont expect a fix soon. although fwiw i havent had too much trouble with nixos on aarch64
<grw>
armv7 on the other hand..
<gchristensen>
wow!
<gchristensen>
would you like to help out? :)
<grw>
ive made a couple of PR for things that were blocking me, but my arm project is unrelated to nixos so mostly just hack around problems when i come across them
<gchristensen>
gotcha
<grw>
gchristensen: can i find this list of problems somewhere?
<gchristensen>
I don't have it handy, but search nixos/nixpksg for aarch64
<gchristensen>
search the issue tracker*
<grw>
yeah i guess that was a silly question, issue tracker has lots of aarch64 :D
<grw>
anyway i guess the answer to my question is version 6 should be using callPackage_i686, since binaries wont work
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<gchristensen>
grw / Dezgeg can one of y'all run echo "$(uname -s).$(uname -m)"
<gchristensen>
on aarch64
<gchristensen>
back in a bit
<grw>
gchristensen: Linux.aarch64
<gchristensen>
neat
<gchristensen>
nice, thanks, that matches other people's too :)