On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 01:21:16PM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:13:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > 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? > > No, this one is only going to get you backlight control. There is a > switching patch ([1], see patch 12), but based on Matthew's comments it > sounds like i915 will need some work before graphics switching will > work. I should note that this patch alone won't support the gmux on the retina, it would need to be merged with one of the patches that adds support for that gmux. > > Seth > > [1] http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/apple-gmux-patches/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
