From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
Cc: 31887@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 23:14:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87in6dqhwu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+LMp4jQXre2PTv=TBFeQ79XWsv7F=3pahhNauQm8Cg6zgfEpQ@mail.gmail.com> ("Taylan Ulrich \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=5C\=22Bay\=C4\=B1rl\=C4\=B1\=2FKammer\=5C\=22\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 18 Jun 2018 22:58:54 +0200")
Hello Taylan,
Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:
> 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’d rather punt.
Danny and I started work a while back to load modules on demand à la
udev, so we could revisit that decision when this is implemented. Now,
if that only benefits VMWare, it’s low-priority for me.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-18 20:58 bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2018-06-20 21:14 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-06-21 18:19 ` Taylan Kammer
2018-06-21 20:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
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