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[Eric Appleman <erappleman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/19/2011 04:40 PM, Eric Appleman wrote:
> The following image represents Bacon as we and other OEMs know it:
> http://i.imgur.com/Zi0Ly.jpg
>
> That may change.
>
> HP will be adding a BIOS switch to their Bacon laptops that will
> apparently permit all rendering to occur on the on the Radeon GPU while
> using the IGP exclusively for output.
>
> http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Display-and-Video/Official-HP-statement-on-Switchable-Graphics-and-Open-GL/td-p/766285
>
>
> "Update: There is a BIOS update in the works that will allow you to
> switch from the default Dynamic mode to Fixed mode. Switching to Fixed
> Mode will allow you to run Open GL programs on the AMD Radeon graphics
> processor. We will let you know as soon as this is available."
>
> Stay tuned for details. I intend to lead a testing effort for new
> DSDT/SSDT collection and switch testing once the update comes out.
>
> - Eric
Small clarification. Rather than a BIOS switch, it's probably the Scheme 
Switch that is referred to as "Juliet" on page 16 of the Bacon presentation.

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B6HLw4COEpWLZWQ2YTEwOGMtMTE1Ni00ZmE0LTk5NzctN2E4OGFlNDViMWU5&sort=name&layout=list&num=50

- Eric