feat(hosts): add the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Psion sidecar
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A headless aarch64 companion for a Psion 5MX: PPP over RS232 with NAT out to
wifi and a telnet login, plus a cleartext POP3/SMTP proxy for the Psion's mail
client.

- hosts/PiZero2W/: host config, serial-ppp.nix, email-proxy.nix, an SD-image
  variant, and a hardware-configuration.nix placeholder.
- Host table entry on nixos-hardware's raspberry-pi-3 profile; the Zero 2 W is
  the Pi 3's BCM2837 SoC. nixpkgs' linuxPackages_rpi02w is deprecated and warns
  that the linux-rpi series is being removed in favour of nixos-hardware.
- The host owns its firmware partition (hardware.raspberry-pi.firmware), which
  is what puts the disable-bt and uart0/ctsrts overlays in config.txt so
  /dev/ttyAMA0 is the RS232 header rather than Bluetooth. uboot.enable keeps the
  U-Boot -> extlinux boot path the rewritten config.txt would otherwise lose.
- packages.aarch64-linux.zero2w-sd-image: the host's own configuration as an
  installable card. The board has no Ethernet and no free serial port, so a
  generic image would leave no way in.
- The mail proxy comes from the legacy-email-proxy flake, which provides the
  package and the NixOS module; nothing about it is vendored here.
- docs/hosts/pizero2w.md, plus README host table and shared-layer notes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# PLACEHOLDER hardware configuration for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
#
# This file is NOT the real generated config -- it exists only so the host
# evaluates in CI before the Pi is provisioned. The machine will not boot from
# it as-is. On first install, regenerate this file on the device with
# nixos-generate-config --root /mnt
# and replace this placeholder with the output (commit it). See ../../docs/hosts/pizero2w.md.
#
# Like every hardware-configuration.nix in this repo, this file is excluded from
# the formatter and linters (see the pre-commit/treefmt excludes in flake.nix).
{ modulesPath, ... }:
{
imports = [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix") ];
nixpkgs.hostPlatform = "aarch64-linux";
# The Zero 2 W boots from an SD card with a FAT firmware partition and an ext4
# root. Labels match the conventional sd-image layout; the real generated
# config will use by-uuid device paths instead.
fileSystems."/" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-label/NIXOS_SD";
fsType = "ext4";
};
fileSystems."/boot/firmware" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-label/FIRMWARE";
fsType = "vfat";
};
# 512 MB of RAM and an SD card: no swap partition (SD cards wear out under
# swap writes). zram takes its place; see ../../hosts/PiZero2W/configuration.nix.
swapDevices = [ ];
}