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[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, so just got the answer back with more details to what I was mentioning
before:
It's the bytecode interpreter work in the nouveau project that would be of
interest for the sony vaio z laptops. See below...


> >    I remember you mentioning there was some work done in the nouveau
> project
> >    to find out what the status of the nvidia card was, then be able to
> switch
> >    it on and off. Can you elaborate a bit on that?
>
> I've posted code that allows you to enable and disable the nvidia
> hardware. You then need to initialise the chip. The nvidia BIOS contains
> bytecode scripts that are able to do this, but we don't have a bytecode
> interpreter that can parse them fully. There's a partial one in nouveau.
>
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>