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From: Taylan Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:19:00 +0200
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Hello Taylan,
>
> Taylan Ulrich "Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribi=
s:
>
>> Although we don't want to support non-free software, perhaps it would
>> be nice to support booting Guix on VMWare without the user needing to
>> do anything extra.
>>
>> While experimenting, I found out that if we just add the following
>> three Linux modules to the standard initrd, Guix can boot on VMWare
>> just fine: mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi
>>
>> mptspi depends on mptscsih, and both depend on mptbase, so if
>> dependencies are handled automatically, declaring mptspi should be
>> enough.
>
> Currently every module we add to the initrd is actually loaded, so we
> have to think twice before adding more.  In this case I=E2=80=99d rather =
punt.
>
> Danny and I started work a while back to load modules on demand =C3=A0 la
> udev, so we could revisit that decision when this is implemented.  Now,
> if that only benefits VMWare, it=E2=80=99s low-priority for me.

Understood and agreed. :-)

Should this bug remain open as a reminder?

> Ludo=E2=80=99.

Taylan