Since commit f620b1b693, the build directory is located inside the
source directory. Thus, the `cp -dpR` copies gigabytes worth of .o files
only to be deleted later on when we trim all non-essential files from
`$dev/lib/modules/${modDirVersion}/source/` thus causing a significant
amount of wasted I/O and peak disk usage.
As `cp` doesn't come with a `--exclude` flag, use rsync. And throw out
the Documentation folder while at it.
Instead of using a string to describe kernel config, use a nix
attribute set, then converted to a string.
- allows to override the config, aka convert 'yes' into 'modules' or
vice-versa
- while for now merging different configs is still crude (last spec wins),
at least there should be only one CONFIG_XYZ value compared to the current string
config where the first defined would be used and others ignored.
[initial idea by copumpkin in 2016, a major rebase to 2018 by teto]
The required argument 'hostPlatform' was missing from linuxPackages_custom's
call to linuxManualConfig.
In order to prevent this in the future, this commit adds
linuxPackages_custom_tinyconfig_kernel so linuxPackages_custom gets tested.
This also adds linuxConfig, to derivate default linux configurations
via make defconfig, make tinyconfig, etc.
Closes#38034.
Signed-off-by: Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com>
- defined buildLinux as generic.nix instead of manual-config.nix. This
makes kernel derivations a tad more similar to your typical derivations.
- moved $buildRoot to within the source folder, this way it doesn't have to be created before the unpackPhase
and make it easier to work on kernel source without running the unpackPhase
[...]
make modules -C /nix/store/h1vzl6bq4wif3m8dd1bw2p3fv4shjg3n-linux-4.14.9-dev/lib/modules/4.14.9/build EXTRA_CFLAGS=-Werror-implicit-function-declaration M=/tmp/nix-build-spl-kernel-2017-11-16-4.14.9.drv-0/source/build
/nix/store/h1vzl6bq4wif3m8dd1bw2p3fv4shjg3n-linux-4.14.9-dev/lib/modules/4.14.9/source/Makefile:939: *** "Cannot generate ORC metadata for CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel". Stop.
This patch introduces kernel.moduleBuildDependencies to avoid the logic "stdenv.lib.optional (stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast kernel.version "4.14") libelf" in multiple places.
[dezgeg did some minor tweaks on top]
For a while now, the only thing the 'uboot' attribute does is to tell
whether to add ubootTools to kernel/initrd builds. That can be
determined with platform.kernelTarget == "uImage" just as well.
Because if you get it wrong, you get a very confusing error message at
the end of the kernel build, which is quite painful as the build can
take a long time.
[dezgeg: note that we are currently using just 'Image' instead of
'Image.gz' as U-Boot doesn't support the latter yet. We might switch
once it does since the kernel images are quite big]
It takes some extra 13MB (and in dev, not out), but allows perf to show kernel
symbols when profiling. I think it is worth it.
In my NixOS, I refer to it in the system derivation, for easy telling to perf
through /run/booted-system/vmlinux:
system.extraSystemBuilderCmds = ''
ln -s ${config.boot.kernelPackages.kernel.dev}/vmlinux $out/vmlinux
'';
