[Intel-gfx] [Nouveau] [PATCH v3 0/6] Enable gpu switching on the MacBook Pro

[Lukas Wunner]

Hi Evan,

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 10:15:53AM -0400, Evan Foss wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de> wrote:
> > I've also pushed this series to GitHub now to ease reviewing:
> > https://github.com/l1k/linux/commits/mbp_switcheroo_v3
> 
> So to test this all someone has to do is pull this and try it? No
> patching required?

Yes. But if you don't already have a kernel git repo, this will be
a > 1 GByte download.

Which MacBook Pro model do you want to test this on? As noted in the
cover letter, this will only work on pre-retinas and only if the
apple-gmux module loads before the DRM drivers. You can try to ensure
the latter by editing modules.dep, or grab this tarball which contains
reprobing patches on top:
http://wunner.de/mbp_switcheroo_v3_reprobe_4.3-rc4pre.tar.gz

Best regards,

Lukas