Nix on the DC ROMA II

At NixCon 2025, I had the pleasure of meeting the Founder of DeepComputing, Yuning Liang. I was excited as I ordered their new laptop, the DC ROMA II, a few months prior. It has an ESWIN EIC7700X, an SoC with 8 out of order execution RV64GBC cores. This is a huge upgrade compared to the 4 in-order execution cores on the JH7110 that the VisionFive 2 uses. I started looking into getting Nix & NixOS…