El Jue, 19 de Enero de 2012, 3:34 pm, MichaÅ MasÅowski escribió: >> Is it possible to have a list of software and firmware that is removed >> from Linux-Libre? That way we could ask for an lspci -vmmnn or other >> operating system vendor_id:device_id to verify before even booting with >> GNU/Linux-Libre > > [0] is the canonical resource for that. > > I'm not sure what such verification would be useful for. > > The drivers have their lists of supported vendor_id:device_id, there is > no simple way to check if a device will work without the removed > firmware without using it (otherwise Linux-libre binaries built by > Alexandre would probably not include these broken drivers). > > I know two cases of drivers partially working without the firmware. X11 > on machines with Radeon GPUs works better with some devices when using > the deblobbed kernel module, on some others it doesn't work with it. > There is a wired Ethernet driver working without firmware, but I don't > remember its name. > > Checking on h-node.com can show more problems, like devices without > drivers also in blobbed Linux (or drivers which need nonfree userspace > drivers, like some printers). > > [0] > http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/download/releases/LATEST-3.2.N/linux-3.2.1-libre.log >
Thank you very much. Very useful information. -- Saludos. Quiliro Ordóñez 593(2)3401517 593(9)6759641 Quito, Ecuador Si me equivoco, al menos sé que soy yo quién se equivocó y no que me equivoqué por seguir la instrucción de alguien más. _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
