* Use a diet udev in boot stage 1 to create the device nodes in /dev.

svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=7608

boot/boot-stage-1-init.sh

@@ -51,10 +51,6 @@ for o in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
 done
 
 
-# Create device nodes in /dev.
-source @makeDevices@
-
-
 # Load some kernel modules.
 export MODULE_DIR=@modulesDir@/lib/modules/
 for i in @modules@; do
@@ -62,6 +58,15 @@ for i in @modules@; do
 done
 
 
+# Create device nodes in /dev.
+mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3
+export UDEV_CONFIG_FILE=/udev.conf
+echo 'udev_rules="/no-rules"' > $UDEV_CONFIG_FILE
+udevd --daemon
+udevtrigger
+udevsettle
+
+
 # Try to find and mount the root device.
 mkdir /mnt
 mkdir /mnt/root

boot/boot-stage-1.nix

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ substituteAll {
     module_init_tools
     extraUtils
   ];
-  makeDevices = ./make-devices.sh;
 
   # We only want the path of the stage 2 init, we don't want it as a
   # dependency (since then it the stage 2 init would end up in the

boot/make-devices.sh

@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-mknod -m 0600 /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
-mknod -m 0600 /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65
-mknod -m 0600 /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66
-mknod -m 0600 /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
-
-# base UNIX devices
-mknod -m 0600 /dev/mem c 1 1
-mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3
-mknod -m 0666 /dev/zero c 1 5
-
-# tty
-mknod -m 0600 /dev/tty c 5 0
-if ! test -e /dev/console; then
-    mknod -m 0600 /dev/console c 5 1
-fi
-
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hda b 3 0
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hda3 b 3 3
-
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdb3 b 3 67
-
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdc b 22 0
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdc1 b 22 1
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdc2 b 22 2
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdc3 b 22 3
-
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdd b 22 64
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdd1 b 22 65
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdd2 b 22 66
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdd3 b 22 67
-
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda b 8 0
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda1 b 8 1
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda2 b 8 2
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda3 b 8 3
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda4 b 8 4
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda5 b 8 5
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda6 b 8 6
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sda7 b 8 7
-
-mknod -m 0660 /dev/sr0 b 11 0

system/system.nix

@@ -48,14 +48,17 @@ rec {
   extraUtils = pkgs.runCommand "extra-utils"
     { buildInputs = [pkgs.nukeReferences];
       inherit (pkgsStatic) utillinux;
+      inherit (pkgsDiet) udev;
       inherit (pkgs) splashutils;
       e2fsprogs = pkgs.e2fsprogsDiet;
+      allowedReferences = []; # prevent accidents like glibc being included in the initrd
     }
     "
       ensureDir $out/bin
       cp $utillinux/bin/mount $utillinux/bin/umount $utillinux/sbin/pivot_root $out/bin
       cp -p $e2fsprogs/sbin/fsck* $e2fsprogs/sbin/e2fsck $out/bin
       cp $splashutils/bin/splash_helper $out/bin
+      cp $udev/sbin/udevd $udev/sbin/udevtrigger $udev/sbin/udevsettle $out/bin
       nuke-refs $out/bin/*
     ";