Subject: Re: [bug#51747] [PATCH]: gnu: nix: Update to 2.4.

From: Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:08:12 +0800

Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]> writes:

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> Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]> writes:
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>> Interesting, It looks that these blobs are for Windows system. I don't
>> care about MS Windows, but blobs are tightly integrated in the source.
>>
>> The source reports that they're compiled from the source in contrib/MSR
>> Driver/Kernel. They're PE COFF format, If we want to compile it ourself,
>> we have to use mingw cross compiler. This increase the complexity of
>> build script.
>>
>> AFAIK, nix use libcpuid only in linux context. My idea is replace these
>> blobs with empty bytes. Maybe leave a note for who want mingw cross build. 
>
> Does the current version 2.5.1 https://nixos.org/download.html contains
> those blobs?
>
> And in any case, could we update to 2.5.1 instead of 2.4?
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Thank you for remind me the release of 2.5.1. We should update to 2.5.1

But the blob is contained in libcpuid, Nix 2.5.1 still use libcpuid for
x86 machine.

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