Stupid NVIDIA 3D vgaarb.c patch

C Bergström cbergstrom at pathscale.com
Mon Sep 22 13:52:48 PDT 2014


Here's where I originally found it
https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/159
(Adding Peter to cc chain)

I guess there's already a bug id and some (snarky?) comments
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63641
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This is for Aorus X3 laptop with NVIDIA GTX 870m card

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Linus Torvalds <
torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Adding proper people and mailing lists..
>
> The PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA test goes back to the very beginning by
> BenH, and I have no idea if adding PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_3D is
> appropriate, but hopefully somebody does. The fact that it makes
> things work certainly argues fairly convincingly for it, but I want
> some backup here.
>
> Dave, BenH?
>
> Christopher(?), can you please also specify which laptop etc. And the
> patch itself seems to have come from somebody else, unless you're
> Lekensteyn. So we'd want to get the provenance of that too.
>
>                 Linus
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:28 PM, C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > I don't know who the original author is and I can have one of the distro
> > graphics friends review it, but I need this patch below to get NVIDIA
> > drivers to work (without using any Intel graphics) on my laptop
> > http://pastebin.com/wpmFi38k
> >
> > Sorry - I know this is not the proper way to submit a patch, but it's
> > trivial and I'm not a kernel dev.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ./C
>
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