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

[Evan Foss]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Lukas Wunner <lukas at wunner.de> wrote:
> 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.

2012
Macbook Pro 9,2

$ dmesg|grep Apple
[    0.000000] efi: EFI v1.10 by Apple
[    0.000000] DMI: Apple Inc. MacBookPro9,1/Mac-
4B7AC7E43945597E,
BIOS MBP91.88Z.00D3.B08.1208081132 08/08/2012

> 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

Ok thanks

> Best regards,
>
> Lukas

Evan

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