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bug#57760: [PATCH] system: install: Do not load amdgpu in the installer
From: |
Mathieu Othacehe |
Subject: |
bug#57760: [PATCH] system: install: Do not load amdgpu in the installer image. |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:16:19 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hey Florian,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
> What Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote at
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/36786#9> indicates that non-3d graphics
> works for some radeon/amdgpu GPUs, because the code that prevents
> booting could be removed from linux-libre for these GPUs. If so (and it
> didn’t work for one GPU of mine even though it is listed as freed at
> libreplanet), these amdgpu ones would get a lower screen resolution from
> uvesafb if this patch were added. But it is worth the trade-off.
Agreed.
> Back then when we blacklisted radeon, we chose to wait for a report of
> amdgpu not working instead of adding amdgpu to the blacklist right away.
> Maybe booting is not broken there?
Yeah, plus the corresponding hardware is way less common. So let's
proceed with this patch as-is. Pushed as
d0376f6718b57be90b2f7697c90e4ecbe0090e0f.
Thanks,
Mathieu