From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow building other kernels
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 00:28:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ue69pm9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d23i48rv.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:31:16 -0400")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> To use a different kernel, for example do:
>>
>> (kernel linux-mine)
>>
>> (initrd (lambda (file-systems . rest)
>> (apply base-initrd file-systems
>> #:linux linux-mine
>> rest)))
>
> It would be great if users could specify a custom kernel without having
> to override the default value of 'initrd' like this. I suppose this
> could be arranged by passing #:linux (operating-system-kernel os) in
> every call of the initrd procedure.
>
> What do you think? Ludovic?
(Our messages crossed.) Agreed, and this is why 0d275f4 does things
slightly differently compared to the original patch.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-05 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-04 19:54 [PATCH] Allow building other kernels Andy Wingo
2015-04-05 20:31 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-04-05 22:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-04-05 20:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
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