l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Taylan, > > Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" <taylanbayi...@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.
Understood and agreed. :-) Should this bug remain open as a reminder? > Ludo’. Taylan
