From f99e8bafe6f751c8ff56eeb4e0fb0415a8b805da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:37:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/installer: add sd-image-powerpc64le.nix

This builds on top of nixpkgs mainline 00d83471803a8a308a52fc4b09b6ec41dfb36453
with the following two PRs cherry-picked:

- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/192670
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/192668

using the following command:

```
nix build -f nixos -L \
  -I nixos-config=nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image-powerpc64le.nix \
  config.system.build.sdImage
```

I was able to successfully boot the image, although it boots to a login prompt
rather than a shell, and won't accept the empty password for `root`.  I guess
I'll have to figure out why that is.

To boot the image: `zstd`-decompress the it, mount it, and use `kexec`:

```
cd boot/nixos
kexec -l \
  *-vmlinux \
  --initrd *-initrd \
  --dt-no-old-root \
  --command-line="$(grep APPEND ../extlinux/extlinux.conf | sed 's_^ *APPEND *__')"
```

The machine I used for testing has only one storage device which is completely
allocated to LVM.  It appears that the NixOS ISO loader doesn't look for
partition tables within LVM volumes.  To work aroundn this, I had to extract the
`ext4` image within the partition table within the `sd-card` image and put that
in its own LVM volume.  This likely won't be an obstacle for users who write the
image to a USB stick or similar.
---
 .../sd-card/sd-image-powerpc64le.nix          | 49 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image-powerpc64le.nix

diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image-powerpc64le.nix b/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image-powerpc64le.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..143c678e43f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image-powerpc64le.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# To build, use:
+# nix-build nixos -I nixos-config=nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image-powerpc64le.nix -A config.system.build.sdImage
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports = [
+    ../../profiles/base.nix
+    ../../profiles/installation-device.nix
+    ./sd-image.nix
+  ];
+
+  boot.loader = {
+    # powerpc64le-linux typically uses petitboot
+    grub.enable = false;
+    generic-extlinux-compatible = {
+      # petitboot is not does not support all of the extlinux extensions to
+      # syslinux, but its parser is very forgiving; it essentially ignores
+      # whatever it doesn't understand.  See below for a filename adjustment.
+      enable = true;
+    };
+  };
+
+  boot.consoleLogLevel = lib.mkDefault 7;
+  boot.kernelParams = [ "console=hvc0" ];
+
+  sdImage = {
+    populateFirmwareCommands = "";
+    populateRootCommands = ''
+      mkdir -p ./files/boot
+      ${config.boot.loader.generic-extlinux-compatible.populateCmd} \
+        -c ${config.system.build.toplevel} \
+        -d ./files/boot
+    ''
+    # https://github.com/open-power/petitboot/blob/master/discover/syslinux-parser.c
+    # petitboot will look in these paths (plus all-caps versions of them):
+    #  /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
+    #  /syslinux/syslinux.cfg
+    #  /syslinux.cfg
+    + ''
+      mv ./files/boot/extlinux ./files/boot/syslinux
+      mv ./files/boot/syslinux/extlinux.conf ./files/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
+    ''
+    # petitboot does not support relative paths for LINUX or INITRD; it prepends
+    # a `/` when parsing these fields
+    + ''
+      sed -i 's_^\(\W\W*\(INITRD\|initrd\|LINUX\|linux\)\W\)\.\./_\1/boot/_' ./files/boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
+    '';
+  };
+}