Yasuaki Kudo <y...@yasuaki.com> writes: > I read a little bit about the current state of video cards, etc - man > this seems like an uphill battle😅 Basically no manufacture > sympathizes with the concept of total transparency. > > I was just thinking what the practical end-game of this might be - do > you think at some point there will be an FPGA+power+various I/O ports > kit that can be totally programmed to provide CPU and video > acceleration? Something like that might be the only way to end this > nonsense😅
There is this: https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class/updates They are still working on it, but that website hasn't seen updates in a while. They have another website that they update more often. > > Then the battle will be proprietary vs free software rather than > hardware. But then again, I don't know what kind of nasty patents > there might be... > > -Yasu > >> On Mar 28, 2021, at 03:25, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: >>> X server worked fine with this NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU when Debian >>> was installed on this computer. It also looks like Debian uses a >>> deblobbed kernal based on this Wikipedia article. >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob >> >> The Guix kernel (linux-libre) and the Debian kernel (Linux) have >> different hardware support and, in general, Linux supports more hardware >> than linux-libre. >> -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar