# This module creates a bootable SD card image containing the given NixOS
# configuration. The generated image is MBR partitioned, with a FAT
# /boot/firmware partition, and ext4 root partition. The generated image
# is sized to fit its contents, and a boot script automatically resizes
# the root partition to fit the device on the first boot.
#
# The firmware partition is built with expectation to hold the Raspberry
# Pi firmware and bootloader, and be removed and replaced with a firmware
# build for the target SoC for other board families.
#
# The derivation for the SD image will be placed in
# config.system.build.sdImage
{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
rootfsImage = pkgs.callPackage ../../../lib/make-ext4-fs.nix ({
inherit (config.sdImage) storePaths;
compressImage = true;
populateImageCommands = config.sdImage.populateRootCommands;
volumeLabel = "NIXOS_SD";
} // optionalAttrs (config.sdImage.rootPartitionUUID != null) {
uuid = config.sdImage.rootPartitionUUID;
});
in
{
imports = [
(mkRemovedOptionModule [ "sdImage" "bootPartitionID" ] "The FAT partition for SD image now only holds the Raspberry Pi firmware files. Use firmwarePartitionID to configure that partition's ID.")
(mkRemovedOptionModule [ "sdImage" "bootSize" ] "The boot files for SD image have been moved to the main ext4 partition. The FAT partition now only holds the Raspberry Pi firmware files. Changing its size may not be required.")
../../profiles/all-hardware.nix
];
options.sdImage = {
imageName = mkOption {
default = "${config.sdImage.imageBaseName}-${config.system.nixos.label}-${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system}.img";
description = ''
Name of the generated image file.
'';
};
imageBaseName = mkOption {
default = "nixos-sd-image";
description = ''
Prefix of the name of the generated image file.
'';
};
storePaths = mkOption {
type = with types; listOf package;
example = literalExpression "[ pkgs.stdenv ]";
description = ''
Derivations to be included in the Nix store in the generated SD image.
'';
};
firmwarePartitionOffset = mkOption {
type = types.int;
default = 8;
description = ''
Gap in front of the /boot/firmware partition, in mebibytes (1024×1024
bytes).
Can be increased to make more space for boards requiring to dd u-boot
SPL before actual partitions.
Unless you are building your own images pre-configured with an
installed U-Boot, you can instead opt to delete the existing `FIRMWARE`
partition, which is used **only** for the Raspberry Pi family of
hardware.
'';
};
firmwarePartitionID = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "0x2178694e";
description = ''
Volume ID for the /boot/firmware partition on the SD card. This value
must be a 32-bit hexadecimal number.
'';
};
firmwarePartitionName = mkOption {
type = types.str;
default = "FIRMWARE";
description = ''
Name of the filesystem which holds the boot firmware.
'';
};
rootPartitionUUID = mkOption {
type = types.nullOr types.str;
default = null;
example = "14e19a7b-0ae0-484d-9d54-43bd6fdc20c7";
description = ''
UUID for the filesystem on the main NixOS partition on the SD card.
'';
};
firmwareSize = mkOption {
type = types.int;
# As of 2019-08-18 the Raspberry pi firmware + u-boot takes ~18MiB
default = 30;
description = ''
Size of the /boot/firmware partition, in megabytes.
'';
};
populateFirmwareCommands = mkOption {
example = literalExpression "'' cp \${pkgs.myBootLoader}/u-boot.bin firmware/ ''";
description = ''
Shell commands to populate the ./firmware directory.
All files in that directory are copied to the
/boot/firmware partition on the SD image.
'';
};
populateRootCommands = mkOption {
example = literalExpression "''\${config.boot.loader.generic-extlinux-compatible.populateCmd} -c \${config.system.build.toplevel} -d ./files/boot''";
description = ''
Shell commands to populate the ./files directory.
All files in that directory are copied to the
root (/) partition on the SD image. Use this to
populate the ./files/boot (/boot) directory.
'';
};
postBuildCommands = mkOption {
example = literalExpression "'' dd if=\${pkgs.myBootLoader}/SPL of=$img bs=1024 seek=1 conv=notrunc ''";
default = "";
description = ''
Shell commands to run after the image is built.
Can be used for boards requiring to dd u-boot SPL before actual partitions.
'';
};
compressImage = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether the SD image should be compressed using
zstd.
'';
};
expandOnBoot = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to configure the sd image to expand it's partition on boot.
'';
};
};
config = {
fileSystems = {
"/boot/firmware" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-label/${config.sdImage.firmwarePartitionName}";
fsType = "vfat";
# Alternatively, this could be removed from the configuration.
# The filesystem is not needed at runtime, it could be treated
# as an opaque blob instead of a discrete FAT32 filesystem.
options = [ "nofail" "noauto" ];
};
"/" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-label/NIXOS_SD";
fsType = "ext4";
};
};
sdImage.storePaths = [ config.system.build.toplevel ];
system.build.sdImage = pkgs.callPackage ({ stdenv, dosfstools, e2fsprogs,
mtools, libfaketime, util-linux, zstd }: stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = config.sdImage.imageName;
nativeBuildInputs = [ dosfstools e2fsprogs mtools libfaketime util-linux zstd ];
inherit (config.sdImage) compressImage;
buildCommand = ''
mkdir -p $out/nix-support $out/sd-image
export img=$out/sd-image/${config.sdImage.imageName}
echo "${pkgs.stdenv.buildPlatform.system}" > $out/nix-support/system
if test -n "$compressImage"; then
echo "file sd-image $img.zst" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
else
echo "file sd-image $img" >> $out/nix-support/hydra-build-products
fi
echo "Decompressing rootfs image"
zstd -d --no-progress "${rootfsImage}" -o ./root-fs.img
# Gap in front of the first partition, in MiB
gap=${toString config.sdImage.firmwarePartitionOffset}
# Create the image file sized to fit /boot/firmware and /, plus slack for the gap.
rootSizeBlocks=$(du -B 512 --apparent-size ./root-fs.img | awk '{ print $1 }')
firmwareSizeBlocks=$((${toString config.sdImage.firmwareSize} * 1024 * 1024 / 512))
imageSize=$((rootSizeBlocks * 512 + firmwareSizeBlocks * 512 + gap * 1024 * 1024))
truncate -s $imageSize $img
# type=b is 'W95 FAT32', type=83 is 'Linux'.
# The "bootable" partition is where u-boot will look file for the bootloader
# information (dtbs, extlinux.conf file).
sfdisk $img <