Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Thu Jan 15 06:34:06 PST 2009


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 02:13:45PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Right, which reduces it to a simple power management issue akin to
> > powering down the 3D core on any modern chipset when you're not doing
> > any rendering.
> > 
> > Adding different devices with separate drivers is another matter
> > altogether.
> 
> Isn't dual driver support logically equivalent to xrandr mirrored to both
> with either one or the other currently a 'switched away' vt ?

Yes, which we don't really handle well now.
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