Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

[Albert Vilella]

Hi Alex,

Any official or officious news from the ATI/AMD front about this?

Thanks and apologies for my impatience :-p

Albert.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> 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 (finishing 3D, newer power
> management bits, investigating IDCT/UVD, etc.) to work through at the
> moment, so I cannot say when we'd get to hybrid graphics.  The other
> problem is that since many of these hybrid solutions are multi-vendor,
> we may not have the rights release certain IP.  Even if would could
> release some information, as has been stated previously, the driver
> stack needs significant work to support something like this.
>
> Alex
>
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