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bug#33190: Choose devices according to linux-libre code
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#33190: Choose devices according to linux-libre code |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:28:49 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
<address@hidden> skribis:
> As I've got here
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-10/msg00083.html
> some devices cannot work without linux-firmware, requiring non-free
> software drivers. It is so bad.
>
> I believe the issue can be solved by choosing devices that have proper
> support by linux-libre code. So how to do this? Is there any info how
> to choose devices working nice on linux-libre?
The manual gives a couple of hints:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html
The problem is of course not specific to GuixSD, that’s why the manual
refers to H-Node, but there are probably other similar resources out
there.
HTH,
Ludo’.
- bug#33190: Choose devices according to linux-libre code,
Ludovic Courtès <=