Re: optimus laptops and the 3.12 kernel

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:11:54PM +0100, poma wrote:

> On 26.11.2013 11:35, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> > Reading about the 3.12 kernels I noticed that there should now
> > be 'dynamic' power management for laptops with an Optimus design
> > (DIS Nvidia + IGD Intel). 
> > It is not quite clear what I should expect from the patches:
> > drastic power down for the nautilus driver or complete switching
> > off of the Nvidia GPU.
 
> http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Optimus/

This implies that the 3.12 kernel patches won't work until proper
nouveau power management is implemented. 

I got the impression, or rather hoped, that actual control was already
possible after reading about the 3.12 kernel improvements in c't.

AV

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