Hey Dave, On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 09:30 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: <snip> > Okay so I'm not sure you are heading in the best direction here. > > My first suggestion is to stop using the MBP, start using the Lenovo. > At least from a Fedora perspective, that is the hw we have more > installs of and > care more about. The Lenovo has an NVidia GPU, and there's no runtime PM support for nouveau. > Apple HW is not the same as PC hw in this case and we aren't going to > achieve > the same level of integration that OSX has, not without some serious > rewrites of > mutter and the whole X stack. That's not the target goals. Did you read the wiki page I pointed to listing the goals? https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/DualGPU > You shouldn't be caring about the MUX. I never talked about the MUX, didn't plan on using it either. <snip> > So I'm missing what the overall goal here is. To provide better > support for dual-gpu > laptops and hotpluggable USB devices in the DE? Just dual-GPU devices for now. I'd be interested in supporting USB displays, but I only have proprietary drivers for my USB3 DisplayLink dock, and possibly networked display devices, but the AirTame I have is also still using an undocumented protocol. > Under X, Fedora carries a server patch to autoconfigure providers, > we'd need to drop > that and have something in the DE notice when a new provider shows up > and configures it, > perhaps something to allow removal of providers that are already > bound > (so we could detach > a secondary GPU for boxes to passthrough). I'd rather have that be automated so that Boxes can tell you what is using the 2nd GPU, not requiring any manual intervention. > Then we need something in the DE to allow us to launch or have some > app info that would > decide to launch certain 3D using apps on the more powerful > processor. That's what I started working on, exporting the fact that 2 GPUs are available through a D-Bus service, which also ensures that we only > However since > nouveau doesn't quite reclock most of the secondary GPUs that can > often end up not being > that much more powerful. There are supported laptops with Radeon GPUs as well, not sure whether that's more powerful. > We also want reverse prime to work properly, so if you plug in an > external monitor to > a port connected to the secondary GPU that we can pick it up and > configure it just like > all the other monitors. I don't think I have any hardware that works this way. > As for the MBP, if we want to spend time chasing the rainbow of OS X, > then we've a lot of work > to do. OSX can smoothly switch the compositor from rendering on the > intel gpu to the nvidia > gpu in a vblank. It's truly seamless. To do that we'd need to a) move > to wayland, b) get mutter > to be a lot smarter than mutter currently is. That's not what I'm aiming for right now. Cheers _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
