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/tree/firmware/radeon?h=v4.4.129 [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
