The Linux 2.6.34 kernel delivers (from [1])
- many open-source GPU driver updates,
- GPU switching support,
- the LogFS file-system,
- faster KVM networking support,
- Btrfs file-system updates,
- the VMware memory ballooning driver,
- and many other changes.
A more exhaustive list of the Linux 2.6.34 kernel changes from
architectures to network drivers is listed on the Wiki at
KernelNewbies.org.[2]
[1] http://www.phoronix.com:
[2] http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_34
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on the native and cross platforms.
I thought I already did that today in a previous commit, but I did all wrong.
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I introduce the new nixpkgs parameter "platform", defaulting to "pc",
which was before defined as an attribute of nixpkgs.
I made the crossSystem nixpkgs attribute set parameter contain its own 'platform'.
This allows cross-building a kernel for a given crossSystem.platform in a non-PC
platform.
The actual native platform can be taken from stdenv.platform, and this way we also
avoid the constant passing of 'platform' to packages for platform-dependant builds
(kernel, initrd, ...).
I will update nixos accordingly to these changes, for non-PC platforms to work.
I think we are gaining on flexibility and clearness. I could cross build succesfully
an ultrasparc kernel and a mipsel kernel on PC. But since this change, I should be able
to do this also in non-PC.
Before this change, there was no possibility of distinguishing the "target platform" or
the "native build platform" when cross building, being the single "platform" attribute
always interpreted as target platform.
The platform is a quite relevant attribute set, as it determines the linuxHeaders used
(in the case, by now the only one supported, of linux targets).
The platform attributes are quite linux centric still. Let's hope for more generality to come.
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It seems that there is no make target named 'vmlinuz' that makes the file 'vmlinuz'.
So we need different variables for the make target and the kernel file. Unless we
some day stop using the file 'vmlinuz' in pc, and use bzImage.
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"make config" to print an additional question that the script
doesn't know how to answer ("Audio Excel DSP 16 [N/y] (NEW) ###").
Just ignore it.
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I fixed conflicts regarding the renaming 'kernel' -> 'linux' in all-packages.
Also a small conflict in all-packages about making openssl overridable.
And I some linux 2.6.31-zen kernel files also marked in conflict.
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most of the kernel expressions for the sheevaplug).
I still have not added anything in the kernels about cross compilation.
I moved the platform definitions out of all-packages.
I have not written good platform definitions for the sheevaplug - only for the
PC.
Only the linux-2.6.32 expression uses the platforms kernelConfig.
The linux-2.6.31 was broken, and I left it broken.
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sheevaplug kernel, so the kernel does not build in the sheevaplug right now.
I will try to fix that in next commits.
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has to be "/bin/sh" - other values such as "sh" or "bash" or "$(type
-tP sh)" cause a build error:
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
/nix/store/1yv8i1m76cvwk5w5i5wrk4gj5zyfj6vh-binutils-2.19.1/bin/ld:arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1: ignoring invalid character `#' in expression
/nix/store/1yv8i1m76cvwk5w5i5wrk4gj5zyfj6vh-binutils-2.19.1/bin/ld:arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds:1: syntax error
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
This is caused by Bash 4.0
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13343).
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* Move kernel patches out of all-packages.nix to
os-specific/linux/kernel/patches.nix.
* Make the kernel config available under $out/config (it's also in
$out/lib/modules/$version/build/.config, but that's kind of hard to
find).
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`generate-config.pl' runs `make config' to generate a Linux kernel
configuration file. For each question (i.e. kernel configuration
option), unless an override is provided, it answers "m" if possible,
and otherwise uses the default answer (as determined by the default
config for the architecture). This is safer than allmodconfig,
which answers "y" everywhere it can't answer "m" and thus ends up
enabling a lot of experimental or debug options. (For this reason,
a configuration generated by allmodconfig must be carefully checked
with every new release to ensure that nothing dangerous is enabled.
The default config should be safer wrt new kernel releases.)
Overrides are specified in the `config' argument to generic.nix,
which is a string that contains lines such as `EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL y'.
The script warns about ignored options, and aborts if `make config'
selects an answer inconsistent with the one in `config'. This
allows us to be sure that `make config' doesn't silently override
our configuration values (e.g., depending on other options, it will
set FB_TILEBLITTING to "y" even if we want it to be "n").
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This comes from:
svn diff ^/nixpkgs/trunk/@18255 ^/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/ > diff
patch -p0 < diff
and then adding into svn all files new from the patch.
trunk@18255 comes from the last time I updated stdenv-updates from trunk.
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* Build the PC speaker as a module. This allows people who are
annoyed by beeps (e.g. users of Dell Latitude D6xx laptops) to get
rid of them :-)
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builders. These are redundant now.
* Inlined some trivial builders.
* Removed a few explicit setup-hook creations. This is done
automatically now if setupHook is set.
* Deleted the initscripts package. NixOS doesn't use it anymore.
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Linux kernel 2.6.29 (release) has a slightly changed Makefile. They now add the prefix for depmod. So in NixOS "make modules_install" fails on depmod. To fix it, our old '/-b \$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r/d' should be replaced with '/-b \$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/d'.
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Linux 2.6.28. In particular the arch-specific headers
are in a different place now. (I'd like to do "make
headers_install", but it doesn't install all the headers
that are needed to build external kernel modules. What
a mess.)
* Add Linux 2.6.28 to the channel.
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modules) together in an attribute set returned by the function
"kernelPackagesFor" that takes a kernel as argument. For instance,
kernelPackages_2_6_23 is the result of calling this function with
kernel_2_6_23.
This is necessary in NixOS to make it easier to override the kernel:
it's not enough to just specify a different kernel (via the
boot.kernel option), but you also need matching nvidiaDriver, aufs,
iwlwifi, etc. Having a single attribute set that contains all
kernel-related packages makes this much easier.
* The kernel now has a passthru attribute "features" that allows NixOS
expressions to test whether a kernel has certain features. For
instance, the externel "iwlwifi" kernel module package should only
be built on kernels < 2.6.24, as kernels >= 2.6.24 have iwlwifi
support integrated. So the NixOS expressions can do the test
"kernel.features ? iwlwifi" to see if the iwlwifi package should be
built.
Kernel patches can declare additional features. E.g., the fbsplash
patch adds a "fbSplash" feature.
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