Nixos on Odroid M1S

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Hey everyone,
I bought the odroid-m1s, and I am trying to run nixos on it.

@K900 pointed me to an upcoming linux patch that adds support for it in Linux.

I tried to create a bootable image here but without success.

Currently I am running
nix build --impure '.#images.odroid-m1s'
to build the image and then I just dd the image to the eMMC of the Odroid-m1s using their mass storage mode image.

But it won’t start.
The blue LED lights up but not the red one, so I guess I am missing some boot config, or my image is just totally wrong.

Can you tell me how to go from this point ?
What should I try ?

FYI from the flake in my repository, I tried 3-4 different linux kernels, including the one from the patch) and nixos-23.11 / nixos-unstable.

Thank you

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Looks like GitHub - ldicarlo/nixos-on-odroid-m1s is a private repo?

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sorry, indeed, fixed.

EDIT: (oh also reading again my original post, I made a mistake, the red LED lights up but not the blue one)

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Are you seeing any on the serial or hdmi output?

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I just ordered a cable to read the serial output.
HDMI shows nothing.
I’ll keep you updated once I can see the serial output, thanks.

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So, 24 days later.
I received the cable, and I have no output.
I clearly see what I am expecting since I have another Odroid M1S with Ubuntu and I get the output.

Here on the one with nixos, it stays black with no output.

I’ll spend a little bit of time trying to debug that since now I have this cable.

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So FYI, now I am stuck here:

** Unable to read file / **
Scanning mmc 1:2...
Found /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
724 bytes read in 9 ms (78.1 KiB/s)
------------------------------------------------------------
1:      NixOS - Default
Enter choice: 1
1:      NixOS - Default
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/../nixos/s958q61dp67dwrixw6a0886aq5m7svcm-initrd-linux-6.7.5-initrd
11207872 bytes read in 944 ms (11.3 MiB/s)
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/../nixos/i0pwc8a0bwj3zqdajclcsqp8wnh3q0zn-linux-6.7.5-Image
64838144 bytes read in 15263 ms (4.1 MiB/s)
append: init=/nix/store/nkbmjxx3qsq0lin1n79l15w7h61n5qs5-nixos-system-nixos-24.05.20240223.cbc4211/init console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=ttyAMA0,115200n8 console=tty0 console=ttyS2,1500000 loglevel=7
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/../nixos/gfaha89vwafcwawz5y378i61mx7glg4w-dtbs/rockchip/rk3566-odroid-m1s.dtb
160974 bytes read in 31 ms (5 MiB/s)
Fdt Ramdisk skip relocation
No misc partition
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 0x08300000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x08300000
   Using Device Tree in place at 0000000008300000, end 000000000832a4cd
## reserved-memory:
  ramoops@110000: addr=110000 size=f0000
Adding bank: 0x00200000 - 0x08400000 (size: 0x08200000)
Adding bank: 0x09400000 - 0xf0000000 (size: 0xe6c00000)
Adding bank: 0x100000000 - 0x200000000 (size: 0x100000000)
Total: 19112.208/19157.23 ms

Starting kernel ...

I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 1 switching to normal world boot
I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 2 switching to normal world boot
I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 initializing
I/TC: Secondary CPU 3 switching to normal world boot

Still trying to figure it out.

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Out of curiosity, did you have any success getting it running?
I’ve one sitting on my desk and I’m still contemplating on whether I should just wait for the ODroid patches to go mainline.

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I am still on it, I use a patched version of linux and a patched version of u-boot, and it still does not work. My repo is up to date if you want to try on your side.

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Got it, thanks. No luck with plain HDMI, as you said. Any tips on where to source the cable? I don’t really want to ship it all the way from Korea again :smile:

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Yes, so I bought a cheap cable for uart from Amazon but it seemed to be broken after one use. Then I bought the one from hardkernel (and waited one month).

As of now, HDMI produces no output on my side, so I am still on it.
(Also, currently working here trying to move to patches options).

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