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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
