bug#31887: Modules missing to boot on VMWare

[Ludovic Courtès]

Taylan Kammer <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hello Taylan,
>>
>> Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer" <address@hidden> 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’.