Hello Felix, Thank you for your quick answer. It would make perfect sense to integrate this patch upstream, but frankly I also think it got stuck and that is the reason I report it here. Do you have have any idea how we could push this patch a little to get it merged?
Greetings, Bruno On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:24:30 +0200 Felix Zielcke <fziel...@z-51.de> wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-12/msg00442.html > > Am Freitag, den 03.04.2015, 20:02 +0200 schrieb Bruno Bierbaumer: > > > Dear Debian folks, > > the current generation of dual GPU Macbook Pros turn off the integrated > > Intel GPU when any other OS than Mac OS X is booted. > > This works by MAC OS X identifying itself as a custom EFI protocol. > > > > The supplied patch adds a command (apple_set_os) that fakes this OS > > identification to make all the hardware accessible to Linux. > > So it's possible to have much better battery life and driver support by > > switching to the power saving Intel GPU instead of the discrete Nvidia GPU. > > > > It would be great if you could apply this patch to the Debian package. I > > haven been using this patch for months and it works well. > > The command should also be side-effect free as it just gets registered and > > then can be run by users who needs this quirk for their hardware. > > > > Thanks for the report. But our opinion is that we don't want to diverge > much from upstream. > I looked a bit in the grub-devel archives around. But it seems that > patch got a bit stuck? > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
