Hardware Compatibility

This document tracks the current hardware compatibility of Redox OS.

• Why are hardware reports needed?
• What if my computer is customized?
• Status
• General
• Contribute to this document
  • Template
  • Table row ordering
• Recommended
• Booting
• Broken

Why are hardware reports needed?

Each computer model has different hardware interfaces, firmware implementations, and devices, which can cause the following problems:

• Boot bugs
• Lack of device support
• Performance degradation

These reports helps us to fix the problems above, your report may help to fix many computers affected by the same bugs or missing drivers.

What if my computer is customized?

If your desktop is customized (common) you should use the "Custom" word on the "Vendor" category and insert the motherboard and CPU vendor/model in the "Model" category.

A customized laptop should only be reported if you replaced the original CPU, report the CPU vendor and model in the "Model" category.

We also recommend to add your pciutils log on this document to help us with probable porting.

Status

• Recommended: The operating system boots with video, sound, PS/2 or USB input, Ethernet, terminal and Orbital working.
• Booting: The operating system boots with some issues or lacking hardware support (write the issues and what supported hardware is not working in the "Report" section).
• Broken: The boot loader don't work or can't bootstrap the operating system.

General

This section contain limitations that apply to any status.

• ACPI support is incomplete (some things are hardcoded on the kernel to work)
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth aren't supported yet
• AMD, NVIDIA, ARM, and PowerVR GPUs aren't supported yet (only BIOS VESA and UEFI GOP)
• I2C devices aren't supported yet (PS/2 or USB devices should be used)
• USB support varies on each device model because some USB devices require specific drivers (use input devices with standardized controls for more compatibility)
• Automatic operating system discovery is not implemented in the boot loader yet (remember this before installing Redox)

Contribute to this document

To contribute to this document, learn how to create your GitLab account, follow the project-wide contribution guidelines and suggestions, please refer to the CONTRIBUTING.md document.

Template

You will use this template to insert your computer on the table.

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The Redox image date should use the ISO format

Table row ordering

New reports should use an independent alphabetical order in the "Vendor" and "Model" table rows, for example:

| ASUS | ROG g55vw |
| ASUS | X554L |
| System76 | Galago Pro (galp5) |
| System76 | Lemur Pro (lemp9) |

A comes before S, R comes before X, G comes before L

Each "Vendor" has its own alphabetical order in "Model", independent from models from other vendor.

Recommended

Booting

Broken