OK - the runtime power management support I mentioned in comment #30 has finally been enabled on ATI/AMD Radeon graphics hardware in the upstream 3.13 kernel - it has support for dynamically powering down discrete GPUs on PowerXpress systems - see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri- devel/2013-November/048316.html and http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri- devel/2013-September/045650.html for details.
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