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bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:04:40 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:42:49PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
>>> We could make a list of known bad GPUs.
>>>
>>
>> When thinking about it, a list of known bad GPUs might be legally
>> safer than saying AMD GPUs are often bad.
>
> I sympathize with the frustration that comes along with the realization
> that hardware you own cannot be used with free software. I would like
> to alert people to the fact that certain GPUs won’t be usable with
> linux-libre.
>
> I just think that there might be a better distro-independent place for
> this kind of information. Some free distros suggest checking for free
> software compatibility on h-node.org, a shared resource. That’s also
> where we could record known bad GPUs.
>
> (h-node.org isn’t the prettiest resource out there, but perhaps this can
> be changed.)
What about adding a few words under “Hardware Considerations”?
Ludo’.
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/07/24
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/07/24
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/07/24
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/07/24
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/07/24
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/07/26
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/07/26
- bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2019/07/26