Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Thursday 15 of January 2009, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
> > now the question is:
> >
> > leaving Nvidia and the downstream problems aside, how difficult would it
> > be to convince ATI/AMD to provide such kind of documentation?
> > Anyone insider here that can answer?
>
> We can definitely look into it, the problem is we already have a
> backlog of stuff with higher priority
> management bits, investigating IDCT/UVD, etc.) to work through at the
> moment, so I cannot say when we'd get to hybrid graphics. 

Ability to just activate desired graphic card from OS when bios set in 
hybrid-mode would be very good start. I hope it would allow to stop X, switch 
card, start X on second card.

> Alex

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