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jackos1998 08605ab422 docs/boxes: Prioritize hardware details

Place physical hardware inventories and VPS resource allocations near
the top of each box page, while leaving broader platform details in
their topical sections.

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castle

The home workstation / gaming desktop. Diskless-style: it netboots from river and keeps its root storage on NVMe-oF volumes from cellar.

Source: nixos/boxes/home/castle/ (default.nix)
Host: physical
nixpkgs: mine

Hardware

Component	Inventory
Platform	ASUS ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16 cores / 32 threads)
Memory	64 GiB
Graphics	Integrated AMD Radeon graphics
Network	Mellanox ConnectX-4 100G, Aquantia AQC113CS 10G, Intel I225-V 2.5G and MediaTek MT7922 Wi-Fi 6E controllers
System storage	No local root disk; the box netboots and uses the SPDK NVMe-oF namespace exported by `cellar`

Role

Desktop

The AMD desktop runs the GUI stack (my.gui.enable, Sway/Wayland via home-manager), low-latency PipeWire, Bluetooth and Thunderbolt. Local libvirtd/virt-manager and the IOMMU are enabled, but the box has no VFIO or GPU-passthrough configuration.

Netboot

With my.netboot.client.enable, the firmware iPXE-boots from the 2.5G NIC. Kea matches et2.5g's MAC and directs it to boot.h.nul.ie on river.

NVMe-oF root

/nix, /persist and /home are /dev/nvmeof/* LVs in cellar's nqn.2016-06.io.spdk:castle namespace (my.nvme.boot, RDMA). The initrd brings up et100g/lan-hi with roceBootModules; the running network keeps KeepConfiguration=static so networkd does not drop the storage address. The root filesystem is a size-limited tmpfs (my.tmproot).

Other configuration

Both firewalls are disabled on this trusted hi desktop. Other settings include binfmt emulation for aarch64-linux/armv7l-linux, recursive-nix, Wireshark and rdma-core/qperf; a drm-amd-display flicker patch remains commented out.

Network assignments

See the consolidated network assignments table (this box: castle).

Networking

et100g (100G, MTU 9000) carries lan-hi (the hi assignment, also pinned by a kea reservation on its MAC) and lan-lo.
lan-lo is a secondary network attachment: DHCPv4 with UseGateway/UseDNS off and RAs accepted with gateway/DNS use off — present for reaching lo devices, never a default route.
et2.5g (netboot) and et10g are renamed but carry no network config.

Notable config files

nixos/boxes/home/castle/default.nix — box config: netboot/NVMe-oF boot, 100G networking, GUI/audio, virtualisation.

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