Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Stephane Marchesin at 15/01/09 10:40 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:21, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What is the current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot
>> switching in Xorg?
> 
> There is no support, and AFAIK no roadmap either. There are many
> technical reasons why this is not possible today. In short, I wouldn't
> suggest getting a dual GPU laptop with the purpose of using it under
> linux, as one of the GPUs will probably stay unused.

Erm, forgive me if I'm wrong, but I thought this was something that Adam 
Jackson's Shatter work would go part way to resolving?

http://www.ziobudda.net/node/103982

Col

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