nixpkgs/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix
Michael Raskin 4e9b120ad2 small fixes to build custom kernel
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=13795
2009-01-17 13:40:12 +00:00

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{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, mktemp, module_init_tools
, # The kernel source tarball.
src
, # The kernel version.
version
, # The kernel configuration.
config
, # An attribute set whose attributes express the availability of
# certain features in this kernel. E.g. `{iwlwifi = true;}'
# indicates a kernel that provides Intel wireless support. Used in
# NixOS to implement kernel-specific behaviour.
features ? {}
, # A list of patches to apply to the kernel. Each element of this list
# should be an attribute set {name, patch} where `name' is a
# symbolic name and `patch' is the actual patch. The patch may
# optionally be compressed with gzip or bzip2.
kernelPatches ? []
, # Whether to build a User-Mode Linux kernel.
userModeLinux ? false
, # Whether to build a Xen kernel.
xen ? false
, # Allows you to set your own kernel version suffix (e.g.,
# "-my-kernel").
localVersion ? ""
, # A list of additional statements to be appended to the
# configuration file.
extraConfig ? []
, preConfigure ? ""
}:
assert stdenv.system == "i686-linux" || stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux";
let
lib = stdenv.lib;
in
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = if userModeLinux then "user-mode-linux-${version}" else "linux-${version}";
passthru = {
inherit version;
# Combine the `features' attribute sets of all the kernel patches.
features = lib.fold (x: y: (if x ? features then x.features else {}) // y) features kernelPatches;
};
builder = ./builder.sh;
inherit preConfigure;
inherit src config;
patches = map (p: p.patch) kernelPatches;
extraConfig =
let addNewlines = map (s: "\n" + s + "\n");
configFromPatches =
map (p: if p ? extraConfig then p.extraConfig else "") kernelPatches;
in lib.concatStrings (addNewlines (configFromPatches ++ extraConfig));
buildInputs = [perl mktemp];
arch =
if xen then "xen" else
if userModeLinux then "um" else
if stdenv.system == "i686-linux" then "i386" else
if stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux" then "x86_64" else
abort "Platform ${stdenv.system} is not supported.";
makeFlags = if userModeLinux then "ARCH=um SHELL=bash" else "";
inherit module_init_tools;
allowLocalVersion = false; # don't allow patches to set a suffix
inherit localVersion; # but do allow the user to set one.
meta = {
description =
(if userModeLinux then
"User-Mode Linux"
else
"The Linux kernel") +
(if kernelPatches == [] then "" else
" (with patches: "
+ lib.concatStrings (lib.intersperse ", " (map (x: x.name) kernelPatches))
+ ")");
};
}