Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:39:44 +0000
Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > > What is the current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot
> > > switching in Xorg?
> >
> > OLPC does automatic switching of display controller for power management.
> 
> 
> Interesting. So the OLPC also has a discrete and an integrated graphics
> card?
> Are these Intel or what brand?

It has a dumb frame buffer that can run with the main video card turned
off, so the image can be updated on the dumb fb and the main video
powered down as much as possible.

None of it is Intel, Intel are the folks who compete with OLPC