[PATCH v1 00/11] FSF sysadmin wiki patches for GPUs

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

Hi,

I found that the sysadmin wiki had interesting information on how to
deal with GPUs, especially the SeaBIOS settings. In addition it also
has information on cards that are being used in production at the FSF
with free software boot firmwares distributions.

In GNU Boot we are in the process of merging a GNU Boot manual (the
patches for that are being reviewed as I'm writing these lines) and
since the FSF sysadmin wiki has already interesting information on
GPUs, at least for now, we'd like to point to the sysadmin wiki for
information on what GPUs to use or how to limit the damage of nonfree
software when using these GPUs.

However the sysadmin wiki is not really meant for something like that,
so I've also improved a bit the documentation and added a bit more
context for less technical users (I hope that it's OK), and documented
better how to contribute to it.

In the long run I also think that pointing to the sysadmin wiki for
the information on Nvidia GPUs is a good idea since the information on
what works or doesn't work is being maintained by the FSF sysadmins,
but in the longer run we might need to dicsuss where to put what
information. Also note that there is also the LibrePlanet wiki for
instance or other possible upstreams that could be relevant in the
discussion.

This patch set is based on the following commit:

    commit 4b2e67bed3ccb237ddc2b06f84f918042681440b (origin/trunk)
    Author: ineiev <ineiev@5ecdb765-02dd-4c57-8fbe-78b8e0997f05>
    Date:   Wed Oct 16 17:09:57 2024 +0000
    
        minor updates
        
        git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/administration/trunk@813 
5ecdb765-02dd-4c57-8fbe-78b8e0997f05

And here's where Git.mdwn is on my git-svn checkout:

    $ find -name Git.mdwn
    ./sviki/Git.mdwn

I tested the patches by deploying them on my local ikiwiki instance
with the following command and looked at it with a web browser (on
http://localhost/ikiwiki/[...]):

    $ sudo ikiwiki . /srv/http/ikiwiki/ --url=localhost/ikiwiki

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli (11):
  FSF: clarify how to contribute.
  FSF: explain how to test contributions.
  FSF: hardware: graphics-card: Intel: fix typo.
  FSF: hardware: graphics-card: Intel: Update and clarify.
  FSF: hardware: graphics-card: Update AMD status.
  FSF: hardware: graphics-card: Nvidia: Warn about nonfree software.
  FSF: hardware: graphics-card: Add possible lead with nouveau
    instabilities.
  FSF: hardware: graphics-card: Add section about other card vendors.
  FSF: hardware: disable option roms: update and point
    hardware/graphics-card to it.
  FSF: hardware: disable option roms: improve flashrom commands.
  FSF: hardware: disable option roms: clarify shutdown / cold boot.

 sviki/HowToAdminThisWiki.mdwn                 |  4 +-
 sviki/fsf.mdwn                                | 19 +++-
 .../disable-option-roms-with-cbfstool.mdwn    | 81 ++++++++++++----
 sviki/fsf/hardware/graphics-cards.mdwn        | 96 ++++++++++++++++---
 4 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)


base-commit: 4b2e67bed3ccb237ddc2b06f84f918042681440b
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2.46.0