From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] gnu: Enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI. Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 18:07:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20170201233531.2640-1-david@craven.ch> <20170201233531.2640-7-david@craven.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZKr1-0004iQ-1Y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:07:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZKqx-0005cM-Um for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:07:27 -0500 Received: from mail-qt0-x243.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::243]:36037) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cZKqx-0005bn-Pj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 12:07:23 -0500 Received: by mail-qt0-x243.google.com with SMTP id h53so5215151qth.3 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2017 09:07:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: 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: guix-devel Cc: David Craven > I was surprised that linux-libre works on the dell xps 13. I'm > considering buying an atheros wifi card, since that's the only thing > that does not work. Does anyone know how to find out if there is a > BIOS whitelist/blacklist? So it's just ARM boards that don't work with > linux-libre? I'm having trouble finding information. The opened atheros firmware is only for the AR7010 and AR9271 USB dongles if I understand correctly? The other thing that was opened are the C headers including the register definitions for a subset of the AR9300 chipset, but it would still require implementing the firmware to be useful to linux-libre?