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    I’ve had a draft post of Guix notes written up for a while now. Did you know that it’s easy to generate a file system specified from a config.scm? It’s somewhat equivalent to nixos-install, pacstrap and the like.

    shell
    guix system init --no-bootloader config.scm filesystem/

    Why? Commands like this are handy for messing around with chroots, containers, and other related stuff!

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    Look at this Makefile — then look at this NixOS package derivation. Appears simple but I couldn’t for the life of me divine how to quickly compile a custom/patched kernel module on NixOS. Abstractions… are very magical. The guide is cool and all, but it’s a better time investment to guesstimate the relationship between the higher/lower layer. This friendly example looks more like this in reality though ;-)

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    A NixOS configuration for a working sound driver on an A1418 Cirrus Logic CS8409/CS42L83.
    nix
    { stdenv, lib, fetchgit, linuxKernel, kernel ? linuxKernel.kernels.linux_5_15
    , version ? "d0d785dc1859b09299bde6d0f1d6786a0d610e7f" }:
    
    stdenv.mkDerivation {
    
      inherit version;
      name = "sna-hda-codec-cs8409-${version}-module-${kernel.modDirVersion}";
    
      # Upstream: https://github.com/davidjo/snd_hda_macbookpro
    
      src = fetchgit {
        url = "https://github.com/egorenar/snd-hda-codec-cs8409.git";
        rev = version;
        sha256 = "sha256-0UeoERcYpM+ojeZ7dDIE3ruTIoHkkC+s7FcoEVUTR0w=";
      };
    
      hardeningDisable = [ "pic" ];
      nativeBuildInputs = kernel.moduleBuildDependencies;
    
      NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = [ "-g" "-Wall" "-Wno-unused-variable" "-Wno-unused-function" ];
    
      makeFlags = kernel.makeFlags ++ [
        "INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$(out)"
        "KERNELRELEASE=${kernel.modDirVersion}"
        "KERNEL_DIR=${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/build"
      ];
    
      postPatch = ''
        printf '
        snd-hda-codec-cs8409-objs := patch_cs8409.o patch_cs8409-tables.o
        obj-$(CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CS8409) += snd-hda-codec-cs8409.o
    
        KBUILD_EXTRA_CFLAGS = "-DAPPLE_PINSENSE_FIXUP -DAPPLE_CODECS -DCONFIG_SND_HDA_RECONFIG=1"
    
        KERNELRELEASE ?= $(shell uname -r)
        KERNEL_DIR    ?= /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/build
        PWD           := $(shell pwd)
    
        default:
        	make -C $(KERNEL_DIR) M=$(PWD) CFLAGS_MODULE=$(KBUILD_EXTRA_CFLAGS)
    
        install:
        	make -C $(KERNEL_DIR) M=$(PWD) modules_install
        ' \
        > Makefile
    
        sed --in-place 's|<sound/cs42l42.h>|"${linuxKernel.kernels.linux_6_0.dev}/lib/modules/${linuxKernel.kernels.linux_6_0.modDirVersion}/source/include/sound/cs42l42.h"|'  patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_local.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_local.h|'                                                      patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_jack.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_jack.h|'                                                        patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_generic.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_generic.h|'                                                  patch_cs8409.h
        sed --in-place 's|hda_auto_parser.h|${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/source/sound/pci/hda/hda_auto_parser.h|'                                          patch_cs8409.h
      '';
    
      meta = { platforms = lib.platforms.linux; };
    }
    ../packages/snd-hda-cs8409/default.nix

    Then build it as a extra/custom kernel module. The results of stumbling upon yet another troublesome device…

    nix
    { pkgs, ... }:
    
    {
      boot = {
        extraModulePackages = [
          (pkgs.callPackage ../packages/snd-hda-cs8409/default.nix {
            kernel = pkgs.linux_5_15;
          })
        ];
      };
    }
    hardware.nix
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    My default nix configuration on NixOS.

    This configuration is more for building/debugging stuff and caching with nix-serve. Usually my package version is locked since different versions of nix can have some effects.

    nix
    { config, ... }:
    
    {
      nix = {
        package = (import ../versions.nix).nix_2_17 { inherit config; };
        settings = {
          log-lines = 25;                                # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-log-lines
          fallback = true;                               # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-fallback
          tarball-ttl = 0;                               # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-tarball-ttl
          show-trace = true;                             # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-show-trace
          connect-timeout = 5;                           # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-connect-timeout
          auto-optimise-store = true;                    # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-auto-optimise-store
          narinfo-cache-negative-ttl = 0;                # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-narinfo-cache-negative-ttl
          narinfo-cache-positive-ttl = 0;                # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-narinfo-cache-positive-ttl
          builders-use-substitutes = true;               # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-builders-use-substitutes
          min-free = 268435456;                          # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-min-free (256 MB in Bytes)
          max-free = 1073741824;                         # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-max-free (1 GB in Bytes)
          allowed-users = [ "root" "@wheel" ];           # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-allowed-users
          trusted-users = [ "root" "@wheel" ];           # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-trusted-users
          experimental-features = "nix-command flakes";  # https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file.html#conf-experimental-features
        };
      };
    }
    My nix-configuration.nix on version 23.05
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