# 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, ubootChooser, compressor, prepend , hostPlatform }: let inputsFun = ubootName : [ perl cpio ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional (ubootName != null) [ (ubootChooser ubootName) ]; makeUInitrdFun = ubootName : (ubootName != null); in stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "initrd"; builder = ./make-initrd.sh; nativeBuildInputs = inputsFun hostPlatform.platform.uboot; makeUInitrd = makeUInitrdFun hostPlatform.platform.uboot; # !!! 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'. exportReferencesGraph = map (x: [("closure-" + baseNameOf x.symlink) x.object]) contents; pathsFromGraph = ./paths-from-graph.pl; inherit compressor prepend; }