| 8 Jul 2022 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.how | So you can do it. But I can't, because I wasn't around to learn :D | 17:27:42 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Whereas I can absolutely do flakes | 17:27:50 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I'm still willing to learn, but there's a lot of history I'm not aware of. Only been here 1-2 years. | 17:28:04 |
 Alyssa Ross | I think there are a lot more nixos-hardware users than just me who would be upset if nixos-hardware tried to force experimental features on them | 17:28:39 |
| Alyssa Ross | But I understand what you're saying | 17:28:45 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | So to try to work on nixos-hardware properly, what is the next step? | 17:29:03 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | How would we get it building on the official hydra? Or is it already? | 17:29:11 |
| Alyssa Ross | I don't know! | 17:29:18 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Doesn't look like it is | 17:29:22 |
| Alyssa Ross | Probably you'd need some concrete configurations defined for it to build | 17:29:43 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Well, all of them. I don't see why not. | 17:29:55 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Every output of the flake, more cache the better | 17:30:06 |
| Alyssa Ross | Getting a Matrix channel going for nixos-hardware would be a good idea too | 17:30:17 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | I did not realise how niche it is | 17:30:29 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Cool, will think about it | 17:30:39 |
| Alyssa Ross | But we should ask Mic92 about that probably, because I think he's done most of the maintenance on it. | 17:30:43 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | working on my visionfive-nix flake which seems to be a decent way to do this with flakes instead | 17:30:49 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | but will talk and figure this out long term | 17:31:02 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | * but will talk and figure this nixos-hardware stuff out long term | 17:31:08 |
| Alyssa Ross | yeah, I think if you wait a bit nixos-hardware will hopefully end up in a state where it's clearer how to contribute to it | 17:31:42 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | Oh btw do you do the Linux kernel stuff in Nixpkgs? | 17:31:47 |
| Alyssa Ross | and is in a better state to accept contributions | 17:31:47 |
| Alyssa Ross | some of it | 17:31:58 |
| Alyssa Ross | I mostly focus on new major kernel releases | 17:32:04 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | 5.19 is weird, it looks like it removes a few files | 17:32:09 |
| Alyssa Ross | (rather than the stable kernel updates, which are too frequent for me to keep up with) | 17:32:20 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | something in manual-config.nix which is very embedded, the ./randstruct-provide-seed.patch | 17:32:25 |
| Alyssa Ross | Recently I've been thinking I should track the rcs like I do with qemu | 17:32:37 |
| Alyssa Ross | To identify potential problems in advance | 17:32:47 |
| Alyssa Ross | But haven't decided if I have the capacity yet | 17:33:03 |
