Changing a bit the usage of 'platform' along the kernel, and expectin…

…g it to be

overrided by pkgOverrides on desire.


svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=18267

pkgs/os-specific/linux/kernel/generic.nix

@@ -37,15 +37,13 @@
 
 , preConfigure ? ""
 , extraMeta ? {}
-, uboot ? null
+, platform ? { uboot = null; }
 , ...
 }:
 
 assert stdenv.system == "i686-linux" || stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux"
   || stdenv.system == "armv5tel-linux";
 
-assert stdenv.system == "armv5tel-linux" -> uboot != null;
-
 let
 
   lib = stdenv.lib;
@@ -76,7 +74,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     in lib.concatStrings (addNewlines (configFromPatches ++ extraConfig));
 
   buildInputs = [perl mktemp]
-    ++ lib.optional (stdenv.system == "armv5tel-linux") [uboot];
+    ++ lib.optional (platform.uboot != null) [platform.uboot];
 
   arch =
     if xen then "xen" else
@@ -93,7 +91,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   allowLocalVersion = false; # don't allow patches to set a suffix
   inherit localVersion; # but do allow the user to set one.
 
-  makeUImage = if (stdenv.system == "armv5tel-linux") then true else false;
+  makeUImage = if (platform.uboot != null) then true else false;
 
   meta = {
     description =

pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

@@ -424,6 +424,8 @@ let
     uboot = null;
   };
 
+  platform = platformPC;
+
   ### TOOLS
 
   darwinArchUtility = import ../os-specific/darwin/arch {
@@ -5576,14 +5578,14 @@ let
   };
 
   kernel_2_6_31 = makeOverridable (import ../os-specific/linux/kernel/linux-2.6.31.nix) {
-    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl mktemp module_init_tools uboot;
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl mktemp module_init_tools platform;
     kernelPatches = [];
   };
 
   kernel_2_6_31_zen5 = makeOverridable (import ../os-specific/linux/zen-kernel/2.6.31-zen5.nix) {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv perl mktemp module_init_tools
       lib builderDefs;
-    platform = getConfig [ "platform" ] platformPC;
+    inherit platform;
   };
 
   kernel_2_6_31_zen5_bfs = kernel_2_6_31_zen5.override {