Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

[Chris Marusich]

Jonathan Brielmaier <address@hidden> writes:

> On 26/04/2018 10:04, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> What about firmware?  Do we know which AMD Radeon cards, if any, can be
>> used without including nonfree software in the OS?
>
> I'm not aware of an AMD/ATI Radeon card which doesn't need nonfree
> firmware. The in-tree firmware in kernel goes back until ATI Radeon
> R100[0], out-tree (linux-firmware.git) are all cards who run the amdgpu,
> radeon or r600 kernel driver. So no card without nonfree firmware in the
> last ~20 years...
>
> There could be some Nvidia cards who doesn't need nonfree firmware
> according to [1]. It have to be before Geforce 8000[2].
>
> AFAIK Intel integrated GPUs didn't need nonfree firmware.
>
> [0]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/firmware/radeon?h=v4.4.129
> [1]
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/393504/which-amd-ati-cards-dont-require-non-free-firmware-when-using-radeon
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_series

Are there any new graphics cards being made today by anybody, which do
not require non-free firmware?  I don't know much about the state of
graphics cards in the GNU/Linux world, but I'm very curious about it.

-- 
Chris

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