From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seth Forshee Subject: Re: [PATCH] apple-gmux: Add support for message box interface (as found in MBP10,1/Retina MacBook Pro) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:21:16 -0500 Message-ID: <20120813182116.GE24088@thinkpad-t410> References: <5028CC19.6070003@vmars.tuwien.ac.at> <20120813170908.GC24088@thinkpad-t410> <502940FD.4090202@vmars.tuwien.ac.at> <20120813181344.GA15931@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:53950 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751377Ab2HMSV3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:21:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120813181344.GA15931@kroah.com> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg KH Cc: Bernhard Froemel , Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Heider 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. Seth [1] http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/apple-gmux-patches/