vga_switcharoo

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:14:09AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

> FWIW, I figure the support is currently reasonably useless for NVIDIA
> chips, as there's nothing for which nouveau-on-NVIDIA is actually faster
> than intel-on-Intel in Linux, AFAIK. So aside from going 'ooh, it works,
> shiny', there's no actual reason to switch to the NVIDIA chip, even if
> you can make it fly. I don't believe you can use the feature with the
> NVIDIA proprietary driver.

The only obvious reason is to be able to use displayport, since the 
switching implementation conveniently "borrows" some pins on the Intel 
gpu that are otherwise required for it.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org