So I just checked, and currently kmod isn't linked to xz or zlib in order to avoid requiring them in the initrd. Is it worth a bigger initrd to have a smaller system overall?
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:21:18PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra 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. > > - 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. > > -- > Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
