[Nix-dev] Re: New arm platform: qemu-system-arm

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:

> some times I mentioned that for arm devices, we would need in nixos
> some way of setting the platform where the OS will run, and not only
> the processor and the kernel (as in builtins.system).

This is similar in spirit to the vendor part of GNU triplets
(http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob;f=testsuite/config-guess.data)
though there’s apparently no triplet for Qemu targets.

Thanks,
Ludo’.