[Nix-dev] Kernel builds now unified in master

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 05/01/14 13:49, Shea Levy wrote:

> As of 
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/139f8949e6a5898aa8f245b49c18a6c523dce24e, 
> the generic kernel build now uses the manual config kernel builder under 
> the hood. 

Cool.  Some comments:

- The function "linuxManualConfig" seems a misnomer since there is nothing
"manual" about it.

- Apparently kmod supports loading of compressed kernel modules.  So it might be
nice to get a further size reduction by compressing them during installation.

- The kernel config of the current system used to be available in
/run/booted-system/kernel-modules/config, which no longer seems to be the case.
 But maybe we can just use the "configs" kernel module instead.

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