Maybe this is useful: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LinuxLibre:Devices_that_require_non-free_firmware But beware that the info is not very up-to-date.
Cheers, Felipe Sanches On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:37 PM, "Quiliro Ordóñez" <[email protected]> wrote: > > El Jue, 19 de Enero de 2012, 3:34 pm, MichaÅ‚ MasÅ‚owski 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 _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
