For clarity - My testing and the patch is required when the Intel driver isn't being used at all. After I finish some other testing I can see if bumblebee and intel driver + this patch will play nicely.
How is a laptop with dual VGA controllers any different than if one identifies itself as a "3D controller"?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com
wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 13:43 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Adding proper people and mailing lists..
The PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA test goes back to the very beginning by BenH, and I have no idea if adding PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_3D is appropriate, but hopefully somebody does. The fact that it makes things work certainly argues fairly convincingly for it, but I want some backup here.
Dave, BenH?
TBH, it seems pretty dubious to me. There's nothing in the spec that would give us reason to believe that a device with a 3D controller class code requires VGA arbitration. Also, if this controller starts participating in arbitration then this same laptop will likely disable DRI when Intel is the primary graphics due to Xorg wanting to mmap VGA MMIO space. I'm not sure what the solution is, but unfortunately it's likely to be much more complicated than this patch. Thanks,
Alex
Christopher(?), can you please also specify which laptop etc. And the patch itself seems to have come from somebody else, unless you're Lekensteyn. So we'd want to get the provenance of that too.
LinusOn Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:28 PM, C Bergström cbergstrom@pathscale.com
wrote:
Hi Linus,
I don't know who the original author is and I can have one of the
distro
graphics friends review it, but I need this patch below to get NVIDIA drivers to work (without using any Intel graphics) on my laptop http://pastebin.com/wpmFi38k
Sorry - I know this is not the proper way to submit a patch, but it's trivial and I'm not a kernel dev.
Thanks
./C