nixos/doc: add notes on additional drivers or firmware #168306
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| For example, to build the GNOME graphical installer ISO, but with support for | ||
| certain WiFi adapters present in some MacBooks, you can create the following |
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It seems that we could provide this module profile as part of nixpkgs as well.
I guess you have two goals here
- describe how to build a custom installer
- help out macbook owners
Not sure what to do. Integrate the hardware repo?
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The goal for this PR was mostly to document how to build an installer with some custom bits, yes - and using the macbook one as an example.
I explicitly didn't want to introduce this one profile. I'd be much more open to integrating nixos-hardware.
This has already been tried once, but reverted - see #91160 (comment) for details.
Maybe the RFC that has been opened as a followup should be resurrected: NixOS/rfcs#70.
IMHO, shipping these profiles in nixpkgs would be a huge UX benefit, and people would have plenty of examples for various types of hardware to take inspiration from :-)
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I hope the RFC can be revived. I've made a small contribution.
Clearly this is out of scope, but I'll leave the conversation unresolved for discoverability later.
This describes how to build your own installer medium with some custom firmware/drivers, using an Intel MacBook as an example - on which WiFi doesn't work out of the box, due to it being nonfree. Fixes NixOS#15162. Co-authored-by: Lucas Hoffmann <lucc@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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This section mostly describes how to build various installer images, so it fits better in that chapter. Proposed in NixOS#168306 (comment)
This describes how to build your own installer medium with some custom
firmware/drivers, using an Intel MacBook as an example - on which WiFi
doesn't work out of the box, due to it being nonfree.
Fixes #15162.
Things done
sandbox = trueset innix.conf? (See Nix manual)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage./result/bin/)nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.shto update generated release notes