Taylan Kammer <[email protected]> skribis: > [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hello Taylan, >> >> Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" <[email protected]> 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. > > Understood and agreed. :-) > > Should this bug remain open as a reminder?
Yes, I think so. Ludo’.
