This ensures a ".dtb" PE section makes it into the UKI so systemd-stub
can install the correct devicetree for use by the Linux kernel. This is
often needed on systems that boot with u-boot since the devicetree used
by u-boot is often a paired down version of what the Linux kernel needs.
On those kinds of boards, the lack of this PE section means that u-boot
will end up installing its internal devicetree into the UEFI
configuration table, which is what the Linux kernel ends up using.
Without sort-keys specified on entries, the entries are sorted only by
file name (in decreasing order, so starting at the end of the alphabet!),
without taking any other fields into account (see
[the boot loader specification reference][1]).
Moreover, entries without a sort-key are always ordered after all
entries with a sort-key, so by not adding a sort-key to the NixOS ones,
we cannot add a sort-key to any other entry while keeping it below the
NixOS entries.
So currently we have options to set the file names for additional entries like
memtest and netbootxyz.
However, as mentioned above, the sorting by file name is not very intuitive and
actually sorts in the opposite order of what is currently mentioned in the option
descriptions.
With this commit, we set a configurable sort-key on all NixOS entries,
and add options for setting the sort-keys for the memtest and netbootxyz
entries.
The sorting by sort-key is more intuitive (it starts at the start of the
alphabet) and also takes into account the machine-id and version for entries
with identical sort-keys.
We use a bootspec extension to store the sort keys, which allows us to
redefine the sort key for individual specialisations without needing any
special casing.
[1]: https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification/#sorting
The maximum length for a GPT label supported by systemd is 36
characters. When a repart definition contains a label that is longer
than the supported maximum length, it is ignored by systemd-repart and
a log message is produced.
The new assertion makes this obvious to the user at evaluation time,
allowing them to either drop the property entirely or choose a supported
label within the length limit instead.
Since we are not in a `callPackage` context, dependencies in
`nativeBuildInputs` don't get spliced to the buildPlatform, causing a
cross-compiled nixos system to fail at this step when running mypy built
for the hostPlatform.
this lets us *dis*able filesystem explicitly, as is required by e.g. the
zfs-less installer images. currently that specifically is only easily
possible by adding an overlay that stubs out `zfs`, with the obvious
side-effect of also removing tooling that could run without the kernel
module loaded.
These should be defaults as they're pretty reasonable to want to
override as a user. Unsure how to change the slice defaults to be
overridable, that should probably be a later conversation.
Lists are convenient to have in sysupdate configuration when using
multiple `MatchPattern` under `Target` when the target can have multiple
filenames. This use-case is helpful for BootLoaderSpec bootcounting where the target file on
disk can have multiple filenames, and in order for sysupdate to properly
ensure only N number of instances of this target exist at one time, we
need to have multiple match patterns.
Previously any user-provided config for boot.uki.settings would need to
either specify a full set of config for ukify or a combination of
mkOptionDefault to merge the "settings" attribute set with the module's
defaults and then mkOverride or mkForce to override a contained
attribute.
Now it is possible to trivially override parts of the module's default
config, such as the initrd or kernel command line, but overriding the
full set of settings now requires mkOverride / mkForce.
There were several modules, critically including NetworkManager, which
were not prepared for this change. Most of the change was good,
however. Let's bring back the dependency and change the assertion to a
warning for now.
