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Infecting the Steam Link with NixOS

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

The author documents running NixOS on a Valve Steam Link, overcoming bootloader constraints with a kexec-based boot flow to load a custom kernel and a kernel module. The write-up covers cross-compilation, kernel patching, building a minimal initramfs, and assembling a bootable sd-image, along with tips for slimming the NixOS closure for constrained hardware.

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