Hi David, David Craven <da...@craven.ch> skribis:
>> I was hoping we could come up with a way to generate a kernel config, >> either based on ‘allmodconfig’ or something like what NixOS does [0], >> but I’ve become pretty convinced that this would be difficult at best. > > What difficulties did you encounter with using allmodconfig as a basis? I forgot the details, but maybe the list archive has some info. >> NixOS has a nicer way to express this, but long ago people thought it might >> be fragile. > > I agree that how nixos does it seems a little fragile. From what I've > heard the kernel settings and their defaults change frequently with > each release. This is why I think relying on the kernel devs to > provide reasonable defaults makes more sense IMO. > > I'd like to make it easy to build custom kernels, I remember using an > auto detect config feature a while back when using arch. But before > working on that I need to actually transition to guixsd... Heh. :-) Ludo’.
