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<samueldr>
adisbladis: devkits were limited, there might be a second wave of them, but you might end up better served by the early devices... they will allow recognized devs to jump the queue so there is better support
<samueldr>
main thing I get from that, is an accessible i.MX 8 based platform
<samueldr>
well, I say accessible... that is if the price is in line with the previous tinker platform they had
<alienpirate5>
How would I go about putting nixos on a new arm board?
<samueldr>
depends
<alienpirate5>
I have a dtb and kernel
<samueldr>
not sure how one would go, though, from a non-nixos-managed dtb+kernel
<alienpirate5>
It has an amlogic s905x
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<samueldr>
does it have recent (2017/2018+) u-boot? u-boot on SPI flash?
<alienpirate5>
I think the dtb works with any recent kernel
<samueldr>
(which board exactly is it?)
<alienpirate5>
Libre Computers AML-S905X-CC "Le Potato"
<alienpirate5>
It has a recent uboot
<samueldr>
right, I know a bit about those boards
<samueldr>
waiting on a la frite
<alienpirate5>
That's the version with the S805X, right?
<samueldr>
yeah
<samueldr>
right, le potato doesn't have a SPI flash
<alienpirate5>
I mostly want to use it for the hardware video decoding
<samueldr>
you might have to figure out some things by yourself, but I think everything should be upstream
<samueldr>
maybe there are kernel compile options not active that are required though
<alienpirate5>
I built LibreELEC's kernel for this board because they have the Amlogic vendor drivers
<samueldr>
device tree should be already in the kernel
<samueldr>
so I guess if you have u-boot on the eMMC
<samueldr>
you should be able to boot sd_image from usb (if u-boot has usb support on that board) or on S
<samueldr>
SD*
<samueldr>
your main issue might be, at first, that there is not much documentation about the amlogic specifics and nixos, but AFAIK there shouldn't be much
<alienpirate5>
Can I put u-boot on the SD card?
<samueldr>
most likely you can
<alienpirate5>
I've been trying to find information about the Amlogic video decoders and apparentlh it's all behind a login wall, has proprietary code that requires signing NDA, and their git server with the updated kernel source is down
<alienpirate5>
Also the Amlogic website is very bad