From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich Subject: Re: Have GPGPU support in guix? Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:31:23 -0700 Message-ID: <87muxp2ulw.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87sh7jtdc0.fsf@elephly.net> <2e8cf2af-7a98-b099-d714-dbeb701c11eb@platen-software.de> <87a7tqejtv.fsf@gmail.com> <168a0afc-e446-3f76-705d-7df1537dd9c1@web.de> <87k1su5r7d.fsf@netris.org> <3cf92a23-f4ef-af5d-18d1-f456767dfec4@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBu6e-00008F-4T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:31:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBu6d-0003bf-4T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:31:32 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c00::233]:40663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBu6c-0003bG-TN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 23:31:31 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-x233.google.com with SMTP id f189so428299pfa.7 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:31:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3cf92a23-f4ef-af5d-18d1-f456767dfec4@web.de> (Jonathan Brielmaier's message of "Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:36:24 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Jonathan Brielmaier Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jonathan Brielmaier writes: > On 26/04/2018 10:04, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> What about firmware? Do we know which AMD Radeon cards, if any, can be >> used without including nonfree software in the OS? > > I'm not aware of an AMD/ATI Radeon card which doesn't need nonfree > firmware. The in-tree firmware in kernel goes back until ATI Radeon > R100[0], out-tree (linux-firmware.git) are all cards who run the amdgpu, > radeon or r600 kernel driver. So no card without nonfree firmware in the > last ~20 years... > > There could be some Nvidia cards who doesn't need nonfree firmware > according to [1]. It have to be before Geforce 8000[2]. > > AFAIK Intel integrated GPUs didn't need nonfree firmware. > > [0] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/t= ree/firmware/radeon?h=3Dv4.4.129 > [1] > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/393504/which-amd-ati-cards-dont-= require-non-free-firmware-when-using-radeon > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_series Are there any new graphics cards being made today by anybody, which do not require non-free firmware? I don't know much about the state of graphics cards in the GNU/Linux world, but I'm very curious about it. =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEy/WXVcvn5+/vGD+x3UCaFdgiRp0FAlrimYwACgkQ3UCaFdgi Rp3aog//XG0xBvUtD5LIPLyeQKQD0/Op4m7dlWMEQgmzKWTKvEuQMYDl32Ck9XYw 621e33fElk3uqcfWmceIGy0CJKL1+1xdPI/9GlvYu60MfXMoEwdCobqDxMTjP+iv 4AXgabCCk6OMQPof/oSFomJoRANwBDrkl7yTIZ+tDWyk3wv/6wV83vFC/6cTWFn0 tu3wgSavY+LpprxJAYZfBysnIxJLtWCC3B2jZ1LwZHwsHeKdZVD5eTpOjTQHNApD xWHietaXbu8goP792jjtl4UPm4GQuATKskAo+Gc8dNeQtnybFn3WKLh7Wdi+k3Cf NQ666LNdRRbjR2kS5H2MunKcPb/k/w24xIUE2SGmy0QThoZtdOs8qbytNS31Mcri Ilp/y1yjPob3+JHrG8/UcLKBq0UPOh/IEIBUjL1QfpkM+FH+T2IkvjWdu+Vk0QbY WATIIfYPho4pJFKSBx8nd5ikrULFGtJNYietvsFOkh0aAdIpzZLsVWjKx5N4hf7y Nn62n8fTiPPhy/1wdff/oDqgLoycolpSCgrWLz6oUvMZYGHW4YqEGrwIyxj7uTW9 yk9mVfvjPFRkhLWoMibAhDaIdJwkP8mwVGbUthBVbseJN+vUx5R5NQfWuvsnrTsa dKemayTm6vLlRB4aRlcTOEhHTQxWwQ+M2oDc9DvsIl7xWVLhizY= =Uo6I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--