[Nix-dev] A few questions about Arm support and NixOS on a Chrome-book

[James Haigh]

Hello,
    I also wish to install NixOS on ARM hardware.
    I have a series 3 Samsung ARM Exynos 5 Chromebook which I bought
specifically for being an ARM-powered Linux laptop. However, though it
comes with ‘Linux’, Chrome OS is absolutely terrible and as a result it
has just been sitting collecting dust since I bought it nearly 2 years
ago. Clearly Chrome OS isn't the full GNU+Linux so I want to install
NixOS on it instead.
    The Chromebook isn't the only device that I wish to install NixOS on
though; I also want to install it on a BeagleBone Black, a PandaBoard
ES, and, if possible, a Raspberry Pi. The R'Pi isn't so important
because it's pretty old now and is ARMv6 which apparently isn't so well
supported. The BeagleBone Black and the PandaBoard ES are both open
hardware platforms that I intend to use a lot. I will use BeagleBone
Blacks for various electronics projects; the PandaBoard ES will be used
as a desktop PC.
    In fact, I don't intend to buy new x86 hardware ever again. I'm also
going to be increasingly keen to avoid buying new hardware that isn't
open. Another platform that I'd like to see support for is Novena; with
the success of the Novena project so far, it's clear that they're going
to be centre-stage in the open hardware scene next year. And that's
another ARM-powered platform.
    So yeah, having good support for the ARM Chromebooks and other ARM
devices would be much appreciated.

Best regards,
James Haigh.

On 25/10/14 14:40, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On 10/25/2014 09:51 AM, Liam Daly wrote:
>> Is it possible/viable/desirable to enable Arm builds on Hydra [...]
>
> Hydra has no arm hardware ATM. And without continuous integration
> there, I expect many things won't work out of the box.
>
> AFAIK people cross-compile stuff for arm on their PCs. CC: Viric has
> probably most experience with that.
>
>
> Vladimir
>
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On 25/10/14 08:51, Liam Daly wrote:
> Hey, firstly great work with everything! I use nix on my main computer
> with Gentoo but I've come into possession of a Samsung arm Chromebook.
>
>
> I really want to put Nix on it but I have a few questions first,
> What's the support like for Arm like at the moment? Is it
> possible/viable/desirable to enable Arm builds on Hydra as the
> chromebook has a terrible processor and how big is a NixOS
> installation (Eg. X, a web browser, Emacs and several programming
> languages) ?
>
> The reason for the last question is that Chrome-books have a limited
> hard drive and from what I've seen some Nix Closures are quite large.
>
> If the install is quite large is there any way to put some of the
> programs on a portable hard drive but not to require it? For example,
> have all the important programs stored on the Chrome-book but put
> extra Nix programs (In my case games or other large unimportant
> programs) on the hard-drive.
>
> Thank you and sorry if any of my questions were bad.
>
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