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[Matthias Welwarsky <matze@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 March 2009 02:18:37 Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Fr, 20 Mär 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > As far as we can tell, the handling of the handover is consistent
> > > across all dual-GPU nvidia laptops[1]. The right place for support to
> > > end up is in the kernel component of the nouveau drivers.
> >
> > Whatever the nouveau drivers are? You mean those based on the kernel
> > mode swching? Unfortunately that is far from prime time, and we need
> > power saving now.
> >
> > I will take a look over the weekend maybe I can add a patch ontop of
> > yours that only does that, taken from the code in the special vaio-Z
> > sony-laptop module.
> >
> > Now it would be nice to merge over *only* the stuff concerning
> > speed/stamina into the in-kernel driver added with the patch for rfkill
> > support.
>
> Ok, here is the code.
>
> For those interested I Cc the  sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> group where I first found that modules.
>
> You need:
> 	kernel 2.6.29-rc8	(maybe it works with all from .28 on)
> 	the patch Matthew sent
> 	the attached patch
>
> Together you get full rfkill support for bluetooth/wwan/wifi, plus afais
> stamina-speed mode setting.
>
> Maybe Matthias the creator of the sony-laptop for vaio-zseries modules
> can take a look at the patch and see if I missed something.

Too much of honour ;) I only took the in-kernel module as a base for my 
experiments. But I'll have a look this weekend.

> Matthias: sony_led_off and sony_dgpu_sta is never used, is that
> intentional? And also the #define SONY_WMMX_GUID I couldn't find being
> used anywhere.

sony_led_off is an experiment vehicle only, and sony_dgpu_sta can be used to 
query the power state of the nvidia adapter. It's in there for demonstration 
purposes.

> Maybe Matthew can take a look and fix the compile warnings in function
> ‘sony_ovga_dsm’ (there are some!).

I'm aware of that. Most are in debug code, though, which can be removed safely 
without changing the functionality.

> My intention is that we do not digress too far from the kernel code of
> sony-laptop making eventual merging possible.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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