Current support and roadmap for discrete graphics card hot switching

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Any official or officious news from the ATI/AMD front about this?
>
> Thanks and apologies for my impatience :-p
>

Sorry haven't had a chance to look into this yet.  Anything more than
a cursory glance will probably be a ways off.  As I said we have
higher priority stuff to work through at the moment.

Alex

> 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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