List of non-free hardware [Was: list of things to do?]

Quiliro Ordóñez quiliro at congresolibre.org
Sun Aug 7 23:18:23 UTC 2011


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El 29/07/11 10:53, Quiliro Ordóñez escribió:
> El 29/07/11 10:25, Antonio Gallo escribió:
>>> A web application that would find what drivers and firmware are used and
>>> then check that information to verify if they are in the free drivers
>>> and firmware that linux-Libre uses.
>> A page where all the drivers used, taken from devices already in the
>> database, are listed? Something like
>>
>>
>> driverA     --- ok (free) (link to the device page)
>> driverB     --- ok (free) (link to the device page)
>> driverC     --- error (not free - please check the device page) (link to
>> the device page)
>> ...
> That could be possible too but more important is a page where:
>
>    1. the user clicks on a link
>    2. ichecks what hardware you have
>    3. checks what drivers and firmware you are using for each hardware
>    4. verifies which firmware has blobs (from linux-libre scripts)
>    5. verifies which hardware is nonfree (from linux-libre scripts)
>    6. asks the user if the hardware that uses free drivers and
>       firmware work
>    7. adds this data to the database
>    8. reports to the user what nonfree software s/he is using.
>
>> where could I find the list of all the drivers/firmware loaded by the
>> linux-libre kernel?
>>
>
> I suppose you can find it in the linux-libre scripts.
> http://www.linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/releases/LATEST-2.6.39.N/
>
> I am copying this mail to that list so we can be sure. If they 
> respond, I will forward it to this list.
>

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