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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:04:40 +0200
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:42:49PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wro=
te:
>>> 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 =
also
> where we could record known bad GPUs.
>
> (h-node.org isn=E2=80=99t the prettiest resource out there, but perhaps t=
his can
> be changed.)

What about adding a few words under =E2=80=9CHardware Considerations=E2=80=
=9D?

Ludo=E2=80=99.