Hi Martins,
Since Optimus is currently Windows-only anyways I think that's the
path they'll choose.
Just as an extra point, Ironhide lets you use Optimus under Linux. I
haven't done any performance testing, but I was able to to manually
activate the Nvidia card under linux and run OpenGL apps on it.
http://www.martin-juhl.dk/2011/08/ironhide-reporting-for-duty/
Yes, I've seen lots about Optimus and its Linux supporters Prime,
Bumblebee and Ironhide. Transformers FTW :-)
What I meant was that nvidia supports Optimus on Windows only. If they
change that at any point I'd expect them to provide an equivalent to
nvapi and Optimus switching on Linux too, but for now they seem to have
no plans for that.
And from what I've seen, Bumblebee and Ironhide are not automatic
anyways, you need to run your app in a wrapper like this:
optirun <yourApp>
and it will switch to dedicated graphics for the runtime of your app. So
it's kind of like profiles, not automatic. If nvidia adds an API in
nvapi to allow an app to hint that it should run on dedicated graphics,
then I guess it would be pretty easy for Ironhide to do it too.
J-S
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