From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:05:06 +0200 Message-ID: <874l3bb6e5.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20190724145602.vtpnqd6kxexypdmx@pelzflorian.localdomain> <20190724154249.qgd4ganifakxmo2f@pelzflorian.localdomain> <20190724175327.lx2e53it46xnjxz6@pelzflorian.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54341) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqMaR-00064p-9p for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:06:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqMaQ-0000Eu-9s for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:06:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqMaQ-0000En-6m for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:06:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqMaP-0000cg-Ue for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:06:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-reply-to: <20190724175327.lx2e53it46xnjxz6@pelzflorian.localdomain> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de Cc: 36786@debbugs.gnu.org pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:42:49PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrot= e: >> 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=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99s al= so where we could record known bad GPUs. (h-node.org isn=E2=80=99t the prettiest resource out there, but perhaps thi= s can be changed.) Do you think it would be enough if we pointed to h-node.org and mentioned kernel flags that might be useful in certain generic cases? -- Ricardo