nixos/udev: set firmware path in a separate modprobe.d file

This way we don't bloat ramdisk with the whole Linux firmware packages.
2 years ago · 2b3f77b716
parent 3dc6fab5c9
commit 2b3f77b716
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/nixos/modules/services/hardware/udev.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/hardware/udev.nix
@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ in
      (isYes "NET")
    ];

-    boot.extraModprobeConfig = "options firmware_class path=${config.hardware.firmware}/lib/firmware";
+    # We don't place this into `extraModprobeConfig` so that stage-1 ramdisk doesn't bloat.
+    environment.etc."modprobe.d/firmware.conf".text = "options firmware_class path=${config.hardware.firmware}/lib/firmware";

    system.activationScripts.udevd =
      ''