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Subject: bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 23:14:57 +0200
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To: Taylan Ulrich =?UTF-8?Q?Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer?= <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
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Hello Taylan,

Taylan Ulrich "Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/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=E2=80=99d rather pu=
nt.

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.

Ludo=E2=80=99.