Choose devices according to linux-libre code

Hello, Guix Help!

As I've got here https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-10/msg00083.html 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?

Hi

On 2018-10-28 19:45, znavko@tutanota.com wrote:

Yes. See https://h-node.org/hardware/catalogue/en

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Swedebugia

Hello,

<znavko@tutanota.com> skribis:

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’.

Here's a list of places where you can get hardware that should be

compatible:

* [[https://shop.libiquity.com/product/taurinus-x200|Libiquiti]]

* [[https://minifree.org/|Minifree]]

* [[https://tehnoetic.com/|Tehnoetic]]

* [[https://store.vikings.net/|Vikings]]

* [[https://puri.sm/products/|Purism]]

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HTH

David Larsson

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

tags 33190 notabug

close 33190

quit

I am closing this bug report because it is not a bug in Guix or GuixSD;

it is a problem caused because the reporter's hardware requires non-free

software to function. Guix and GuixSD do not support non-free hardware.

If I have misinterpreted your bug report, please feel free to re-open

the bug report and explain the problem in more detail.

As for your question on how to deal with the situation, I see that you

emailed help-guix@, so any further discussion about that topic can

happen there. Generally speaking, I'm sure people will be happy to help

you choose hardware that does not require non-free software, or to work

around hardware that does.

Thank you,

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Chris