radxa/dragon-q6a: init #1698
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Signed-off-by: Cryolitia PukNgae <Cryolitia@gmail.com>
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| # We need a out-of-tree kernel for Dragon Q6A, otherwise important hardware such as NVME won't work. | ||
| kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackagesFor (import ./kernel.nix { inherit lib pkgs; }); |
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It will be part of upstream 6.19. I hope we can wait and just not deal with downstream kernel.
At least this should be lib.mkDefault.
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Description of changes
Initialize the support of Radxa Dragon Q6A
https://docs.radxa.com/dragon/q6a
A major challenge is how we handle the onboard AIC8800 WiFi module.
The downstream vendor released their driver at: https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800
Due to its extremely poor code quality, this module is virtually impossible to integrate into nixpkgs as is, let alone the mainline kernel. Here are some attempts:
To make matters worse, due to the creators' extremely poor understanding of Linux kernel firmware loading, the original code for this driver was completely unusable on Nixos.
I modified a version on the Deepin community that looks usable, but I can't guarantee its long-term maintenance： https://github.com/deepin-community/aic8800
Things done
nixos-hardwareandimporting it via
<nixos-hardware>or Flake inputCC @RadxaYuntian