Installing Debian on modern hardware

Posted Jan 21, 2021 22:30 UTC (Thu) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: Installing Debian on modern hardware by pabs
Parent article: Installing Debian on modern hardware

Maybe Debian needs something like popcon but for hardware?

Installing Debian on modern hardware

Posted Jan 21, 2021 22:36 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

There is already the cross-distro Linux Hardware Database and hw-probe for that, but it still needs adding hardware info submission into Calamares and the Debian installer and then also figuring out how to use the database in order to inform user purchasing decisions.

https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database
https://linux-hardware.org/
https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1454
https://bugs.debian.org/964853