Re: [PATCH] apple-gmux: Add support for message box interface (as found in MBP10,1/Retina MacBook Pro)

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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:01:33PM +0200, Bernhard Froemel wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 07:09 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > Matthew also made some progress with this last week, at least
> > enough to get the backlight working. From what I remember of
> > looking at his changes these look fairly similar, but I think his
> > implementation looked cleaner and possibly more complete.
> Aw.. pity; then I wasted ~8h :/ .. but I had fun anyway.  Is there
> another (patch) thread where this is already discussed?
> 
> >> I see that there is a lot going on concerning and related to the 
> >> apple-gmux currently: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/9/715 
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/3/300
> > 
> > I'm slowly making progress on the graphics switching stuff. I've
> > got patches for vga_switcheroo and apple-gmux that make the muxing
> > itself work fine, the problems now all revolve around making the
> > graphics drivers deal with difficult behavior from Apple machines.
> Looking forward to it, although the essential stuff (for Intel GPU
> operation only) already works well for me.
> In case you need something tested you can always CC me!

So with this patch you don't have to boot to os-x to change the graphics
card and it works properly?

thanks,

greg k-h
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