Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielma...@web.de> 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/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
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. -- Chris
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