nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
John Ericson 0828e2d8c3 treewide: Remove usage of remaining redundant platform compatability stuff
Want to get this out of here for 18.09, so it can be deprecated
thereafter.
2018-08-30 17:20:32 -04:00

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# Create an initial ramdisk containing the closure of the specified
# file system objects. An initial ramdisk is used during the initial
# stages of booting a Linux system. It is loaded by the boot loader
# along with the kernel image. It's supposed to contain everything
# (such as kernel modules) necessary to allow us to mount the root
# file system. Once the root file system is mounted, the `real' boot
# script can be called.
#
# An initrd is really just a gzipped cpio archive.
#
# Symlinks are created for each top-level file system object. E.g.,
# `contents = {object = ...; symlink = /init;}' is a typical
# argument.
{ stdenv, perl, cpio, contents, compressor, prepend, ubootTools
}:
stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "initrd";
builder = ./make-initrd.sh;
makeUInitrd = stdenv.hostPlatform.platform.kernelTarget == "uImage";
nativeBuildInputs = [ perl cpio ]
++ stdenv.lib.optional makeUInitrd ubootTools;
# !!! should use XML.
objects = map (x: x.object) contents;
symlinks = map (x: x.symlink) contents;
suffices = map (x: if x ? suffix then x.suffix else "none") contents;
# For obtaining the closure of `contents'.
# Note: we don't use closureInfo yet, as that won't build with nix-1.x.
# See #36268.
exportReferencesGraph =
map (x: [("closure-" + baseNameOf x.symlink) x.object]) contents;
pathsFromGraph = ./paths-from-graph.pl;
inherit compressor prepend;
}