Re: Rust-for-Linux Hydra CI

[Christine Dodrill <me@christine.website>]

I have been working on implementing a kernel driver in Rust to learn
how to do it and I have a NixOS test for it in case you want to use it
as a starting point: https://github.com/Xe/dev-printerfact-on-nixos.


On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 4:33 AM Finn Behrens <me@kloenk.de> wrote:
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> Howdy,
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> The nix-community gave me access to the nix-community hydra. Hydra is the CI tool written for nix builds, and so builds the rust-for-linux tree with nix. The hydra is checking the GitHub rust-for-linux/linux repo for new commits, and then builds these in a nix context (If we want to move to git.kernel.org, hydra can also check there for new commits).
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> The latest builds can be seen here: https://hydra.nix-community.org/jobset/rust-for-linux/rust and is also uploaded to the nix cache at https://app.cachix.org/cache/nix-community (local nix versions can use those caches to substitute builds, e.g. rustc-nightly)
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> We could also add vm tests via nixos, and documentation is not generated currently, but if we write nix derivations for that, hydra could also deliver those for download.
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> CU,
> Finn
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> PS: I’m not sure If this will break if we rebase to a newer linux version, as nix needs a version to find some files.



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