Flake to build an Armbian Image with Nix Package Manager (Hyprland and other user stuff)

Overview

(Needs Aarch64 with Nix to build, didn't test on x86_64 yet)

To build the Image, use nix build. Flash the output .img.zstd file in the results folder to an SD-Card (see below). Boot the OrangePI 5x from that SD-Card. Copy the image onto SD-Card installation, and use the same process to flash it onto the eMMC drive (using LSBLK to identify).

Spec

Kernel 5.10.160 from Armbian
U-boot - mainline 2023-07-02 with patch
Panfork (for mesa 3D) v20.0.0 + mali firmware

Check flake.nix for more detail.

Flash the image (SD-Card or eMMC, use lsblk to identify)

zstdcat result/sd-image/nixos-sd-image-*.img.zstd | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=4M status=progress

Status

Working

Onchip IPs seem to work
Ethernet
GPU - on wayland (the swaywm included within sdcard image)
- Start sway will then load Mali firmware, to check GPU accelleration, run firefox with Wayland enable MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox
  - about:support will show the status of GPU supporting
- Perf is quite good - video playback consumed ~30% CPU (1080p youtube video on 4K monitor), ~50% CPU (4K youtube video on 4K monitor) - fullscreen mode
USB-C OTG-mode
Other? - not fully check (not that intrrested in :D)
Audio

Not working

Wifi/BT
USB2.0 port not working
Vulkan/OpenGL doesnt seem to work? (SuperTuxKart and other games very laggy)
Other??

Ref.

Note:

Image is able to build from my OPI-5B, might work on x86_64 machine (with binfmt supported).
Needs Aarch64 with Nix to build, didn't test on x86_64 yet

phaitonican / nix-armbian-orange-pi5x