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Purple Cat with a PC-98 (and X68K) (npub1f8l…7frq) >BUY SOMETHING THAT RESPECTS YOUR FREEDOM LIKE AMD/INTEL
ATI and AMD GPUs don't respect freedom, as they aren't really usable without proprietary peripheral software (technically you can run ATI and AMD GPUs under the radeonsi driver with the proprietary software removed and get 1080p output, but you don't get 3D accel and S3 suspend doesn't work).
Older intel iGPUs do respect freedom and coreboot has free init for those, but newer intel (i)GPUs do not operate without proprietary peripheral software.
Certain Aspeed integrated GPUs (i.e. for servers) have free init in coreboot, but such init and handler currently lacks EDID support, so you're stuck with the default resolution.
For some very strange reason, older Nvidia GPUs mostly respect freedom, as nouveau has free peripheral software for nvidia GPUs up to the 700 series.
Pretty much, install GNUboot on a core 2 Thinkpad and enjoy graphics freedom.
ATI and AMD GPUs don't respect freedom, as they aren't really usable without proprietary peripheral software (technically you can run ATI and AMD GPUs under the radeonsi driver with the proprietary software removed and get 1080p output, but you don't get 3D accel and S3 suspend doesn't work).
Older intel iGPUs do respect freedom and coreboot has free init for those, but newer intel (i)GPUs do not operate without proprietary peripheral software.
Certain Aspeed integrated GPUs (i.e. for servers) have free init in coreboot, but such init and handler currently lacks EDID support, so you're stuck with the default resolution.
For some very strange reason, older Nvidia GPUs mostly respect freedom, as nouveau has free peripheral software for nvidia GPUs up to the 700 series.
Pretty much, install GNUboot on a core 2 Thinkpad and enjoy graphics freedom.