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feat(boot): enable graphical boot on guivm, fix darp11 graphical boot#1406

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feat(boot): enable graphical boot on guivm, fix darp11 graphical boot#1406
brianmcgillion merged 1 commit intotiiuae:mainfrom
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Description of Changes

  1. Graphical boot config overhaul:
    • Added more nix options to configure Ghaf graphical boot: theme, renderer, splashDelay, deviceTimeout, debug
  2. Enabled graphical boot on guivm
    • The splash screen should show up as soon as the gpu is attached and initialized on guivm
  3. Fixed black screen boot on system76 darp11-b

Type of Change

  • New Feature
  • Bug Fix
  • Improvement / Refactor

Related Issues / Tickets

Checklist

  • Clear summary in PR description
  • Detailed and meaningful commit message(s)
  • Commits are logically organized and squashed if appropriate
  • Contribution guidelines followed
  • Ghaf documentation updated with the commit - https://tiiuae.github.io/ghaf/
  • Author has run make-checks and it passes
  • All automatic GitHub Action checks pass - see actions
  • Author has added reviewers and removed PR draft status

Testing Instructions

Applicable Targets

  • Orin AGX aarch64
  • Orin NX aarch64
  • Lenovo X1 x86_64
  • Dell Latitude x86_64
  • System 76 x86_64

Installation Method

  • Requires full re-installation
  • Can be updated with nixos-rebuild ... switch
  • Other:

Test Steps To Verify:

  1. Shutdown the target system after deploying this patch
  2. Power on the system
  3. Observe and verify the following boot process:
    • Firmware/NixOS generation selection
    • Host boot splash screen with Ghaf logo
    • Black screen (guivm started, gpu is being initialized)
    • Guivm boot splash screen with Ghaf logo
    • Black screen (greetd starting)
    • Login screen
  4. Verify boot process is fixed on system76 darp11-b

Signed-off-by: Kajus Naujokaitis <kajus.naujokaitis@unikie.com>
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Tested on Lenovo-X1 (nixos-rebuild switch) and darp11-b (new image)

  • Boot works as described on both devices

Notes

  • There were some unusual failures with Orin boots in the pre-merge pipeline. After boot, both Orin-NX and Orin-AGX sometimes connected to ghaf-host instead of net-vm via SSH. That is all I know. If the connection is not to net-vm, the tests assume the boot failed and no proper logs are saved. I discovered that this has also happened with other PR:s so I am expecting it not to be caused by this one. I will improve the logging to make debugging easier in the future.

@milva-unikie milva-unikie added Tested on Lenovo X1 Carbon This PR has been tested on Lenovo X1 Carbon Tested on System76 and removed Needs Testing CI Team to pre-verify labels Sep 16, 2025
@brianmcgillion brianmcgillion merged commit 3865180 into tiiuae:main Sep 16, 2025
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@kajusnau kajusnau deleted the ovmf-guivm-boot branch September 16, 2025 07:30
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