By the way, [1] should fix the bad error message you were seeing once merged.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/223 On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:43:16PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote: > Thanks, I understand. I decided to enable the support for modules in > my kernel for now. > > Here is a new wiki section regarding the topic: > https://nixos.org/wiki/How_to_tweak_Linux_kernel_config_options > > Regards, > Sergey > > > > 2014-03-07 13:06 GMT+04:00 Shea Levy <[email protected]>: > > Hey Sergey, > > > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 12:17:50PM +0400, Sergey Mironov wrote: > >> Hi. I am trying to build my own minimalistic kernel with `buildLinux' > >> defined in kernel/manual-config.nix. I've written the wrapper > >> expression as follows: > >> > >> # linuxHandMade.nix > >> { stdenv, fetchurl, buildLinux } : > >> > >> buildLinux rec { > >> > >> version = "3.10.28"; > >> > >> src = fetchurl { > >> url = "mirror://kernel/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-${version}.tar.xz"; > >> sha256 = "1blzvr3qywi8wxgl28zsn5djwgvw70yh3i6qjh2sz3zk9gnpd6mq"; > >> }; > >> > >> configfile = ./linux-config; > >> > >> allowImportFromDerivation = true; > >> } > >> > >> where ./linux-config is the .config I have built manually by unpacking > >> kernel sources and doing 'make menuconfig'. Everything was OK until I > >> disabled the loadable modules support. The ./linux-config now contains > >> "# CONFIG_MODULES is not set" and kernel/manual-config.nix doesn't > >> work. The error is quite obscure: > >> > >> $ nix-build econat.nix -A linuxHandMade --show-trace > >> error: while evaluating `callPackageWith' at > >> `/home/grwlf/proj/nixpkgs-econat/lib/customisation.nix:95:35': > >> while evaluating `makeOverridable' at > >> `/home/grwlf/proj/nixpkgs-econat/lib/customisation.nix:56:24': > >> while evaluating an anonymous function at > >> `/home/grwlf/proj/nixpkgs-econat/econat/apps/kernel.nix:1:1': > >> while evaluating an anonymous function at > >> `/home/grwlf/proj/nixpkgs-econat/pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/manual-config.nix:13:4': > >> while evaluating `mkDerivation' at > >> `/home/grwlf/proj/nixpkgs-econat/pkgs/stdenv/generic/default.nix:55:24': > >> while evaluating `addPassthru' at > >> `/home/grwlf/proj/nixpkgs-econat/lib/customisation.nix:100:22': > >> while evaluating an anonymous function at > >> `/nix/store/mf69pq5r5948h2q4wj4zfx69rn6zcfk4-nix-1.6.1/share/nix/corepkgs/derivation.nix:4:1': > >> value is null while a list was expected > >> > > > > That error is rubbish, and we'll fix that, but currently NixOS is not > > intended to support non-modular kernels. See [1] for where the > > restriction is specified. Lifting that would take only a little bit of > > work, just no one has gotten around to it. > > > > Cheers, > > Shea > > > > [1]: > > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/6572708d3914a07a1c58f6162b999925ee3d695e/nixos/modules/system/boot/kernel.nix#L289 > >> > >> I think I've already entered the purely-tested areas of Nixos but > >> still could anybody give me a clue of what may go wrong? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Sergey > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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
