On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Eric Lai (賴裕文) wrote: > This is Eric from Quanta Cloud Technology, Taiwan. > I am in charge of server hardware certification. > We would like to know if Debian can perform hardware certification as well. > If support, please advise the process and any document we can refer it.
At this time, Debian does not have a formal hardware certification program. If you are interested in checking how Debian works with your hardware, you could have your developers do the work, or hire consultants who are familiar with Debian to test compatibility with your hardware. https://www.debian.org/distrib/ https://www.debian.org/consultants/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-consultants/ We have a section on the wiki where users can report their hardware experiences: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn There is a similar service called h-node that is for all libre Linux distros: https://h-node.org/ We have a couple of lists of hardware that ships with Debian out of the box. If Quanta are shipping Debian on your hardware, feel free to register an account on our wiki and edit the ShippingWithDebian page. https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/ShippingWithDebian https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHardware Ultimately, Debian relies on the upstream Linux kernel community for most of our hardware support, so getting any needed drivers or patches included upstream will mean that Debian supports your hardware. https://www.kernel.org/ https://kernelnewbies.org/UpstreamMerge Please also consider adding support for your servers to the coreboot firmware project: http://coreboot.org/ PS: in 2018 the annual Debian conference will be held in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It would be great if Quanta could help fund DebConf18 and Quanta developers could attend DebConf18. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18 Sponsorship information for 2017 is listed here: https://debconf17.debconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
