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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>,
	Antero Mejr <antero@mailbox.org>,
	57760-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57760: [PATCH] system: install: Do not load amdgpu in the installer image.
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:16:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmfvhgz0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r10cl2sx.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:56:30 +0200")


Hey Florian,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

> What Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote at
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/36786#9> indicates that non-3d graphics
> works for some radeon/amdgpu GPUs, because the code that prevents
> booting could be removed from linux-libre for these GPUs.  If so (and it
> didn’t work for one GPU of mine even though it is listed as freed at
> libreplanet), these amdgpu ones would get a lower screen resolution from
> uvesafb if this patch were added.  But it is worth the trade-off.

Agreed.

> Back then when we blacklisted radeon, we chose to wait for a report of
> amdgpu not working instead of adding amdgpu to the blacklist right away.
> Maybe booting is not broken there?

Yeah, plus the corresponding hardware is way less common. So let's
proceed with this patch as-is. Pushed as
d0376f6718b57be90b2f7697c90e4ecbe0090e0f.

Thanks,

Mathieu




      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-16  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-13  2:42 [bug#57760] [PATCH] system: install: Do not load amdgpu in the installer image Antero Mejr via Guix-patches via
2022-09-14  7:37 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-09-14 10:06   ` Josselin Poiret via Guix-patches via
2022-09-15 13:43     ` Mathieu Othacehe
2022-09-15 21:56       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-09-16  8:16         ` Mathieu Othacehe [this message]

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