Subject: Re: bug#58357: [Patch staging ] doc add a recommended system in 'Hardware Considerations'

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 19:28:58 +0000

October 14, 2022 1:10 PM, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hello! Some comments:
> 
> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> This discussion and others we had at the Ten Years of Guix event makes
>> me think we should strive to avoid bad surprises by being more
>> explicit. Concretely, we could:
>> 
>> • Under “Hardware Considerations”, list common devices known not to
>> work without non-free {firm,soft}ware, such as Intel Wifi (iwlwifi).
>> We cannot be exhaustive but we should at least mention common
>> problems with recent x86_64 laptops.
> 

OpenBSD lists supported hardware on their website:

https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html  as an example.

Joshua