[Nix-dev] Kernel builds now unified in master

[Shea Levy]

Hi Eelco,

> On Jan 6, 2014, at 6:21, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Yeah, we should just rename it to buildLinux or similar.

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

Sure, I can look into that.

> - 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.
> 

Either that or of course we can just copy it there. But configs seems like a good solution to me.

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