Re: cirrus (was Re: Release progress, week 10)

["pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>]

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"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
> That hold-up aside, maybe could you also tentatively add the cirrus
> initrd module to the 1.4.0 installation image?  I suppose it won’t break
> anything, but it might help with bugs like
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60002>.

I tested the following chance:


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diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index 3dd9e0e87b..dfa6db9408 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -507,6 +507,10 @@ (define installation-os
     ;; Thus, blacklist it.
     (kernel-arguments '("quiet" "modprobe.blacklist=radeon,amdgpu"))
 
+    (initrd-modules (append
+                    (list "cirrus")
+                    %base-initrd-modules))
+
     (file-systems
      ;; Note: the disk image build code overrides this root file system with
      ;; the appropriate one.

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This makes the installer work on QEMU with '-vga cirrus'.

It also still works under default QEMU (cirrus isn’t default anymore
since QEMU 2.2 according to the docs).

The installer also still works on my:

* Beebox with Intel

* PC with Nvidia

and thanks to the resolution of the
  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60010
  it also works on my

* PC with AMD

* laptop with AMD

None is modern hardware, but still, please add cirrus.

Regards,
Florian