Comment 671 for bug 752542

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Peter Wu (lekensteyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 752542] Re: ACPI DSDT info

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 14:41:19 Marc Collin wrote:
> it's it usefull to post dsdt? is there any work done or people send theses
> info for nothing

I think it is not as useful as it was before.

Status for NVIDIA Optimus: the nouveau driver has improved runtime PM
(enabled by default for Optimus laptops). IIRC, that landed in Linux
3.12. In comparison with bbswitch, it improves co-operation with
HDMI audio. From time[1] to time[2], new laptops are released that
turn out to be incompatible[3]. These DSDT dumps are then useful to
debug those issues, but nobody seems to care about the dumps posted
here.

AMD hybrid graphics: I have not heard much about this. The open-source
radeon driver is supposed to save power too through vgaswitcheroo,
I do not know if the power saving is also implemented through runtime PM.

Peter

 [1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42696
 [2]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60561
 [3]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60829