From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas@t-8ch.de>
Cc: Luke Jones <luke@ljones.dev>,
andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, pobrn@protonmail.com, pavel@ucw.cz,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] asus-wmi: Support the hardware GPU MUX on some laptops
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:44:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3bb0989-78d9-c513-1669-75407b2acbac@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0239b3bb-d9cb-4549-9e9e-006923b61634@t-8ch.de>
Hi,
On 8/12/22 10:31, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-08-12 09:59+0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:59:29 +0200
>> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>> To: Luke Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
>> Cc: andy.shevchenko@gmail.com, pobrn@protonmail.com, pavel@ucw.cz,
>> platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] asus-wmi: Support the hardware GPU MUX on some
>> laptops
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
>> Thunderbird/91.12.0
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/12/22 00:01, Luke Jones wrote:
>>> Hi Hans,
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2022-08-11 at 15:53 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 8/9/22 04:50, Luke D. Jones wrote:
>>>>> Support the hardware GPU MUX switch available on some models. This
>>>>> switch can toggle the MUX between:
>>>>>
>>>>> - 0, Dedicated mode
>>>>> - 1, Optimus mode
>>>>>
>>>>> Optimus mode is the regular iGPU + dGPU available, while dedicated
>>>>> mode switches the system to have only the dGPU available.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
>>>>
>>>> I see that you have replied to this that it needs more work.
>>>>
>>>> Besides it needing more work, ideally this should hook into
>>>> the existing vga-switcheroo mechanism for this. Can you take
>>>> a look at that please?
>>>>
>>>> I think this might be the first non GPU driver doing vga-
>>>> switcheroo stuff. So this may be something to discuss
>>>> on the dri-devel list.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how this would work. In typical ASUS fashion they do non-
>>> standard stuff. This switch is a basic toggle that requires a reboot to
>>> enable after writing to the ACPI method, after reboot the dGPU becomes
>>> the only visible GPU on the system and (this GPU) can not be suspended.
>>>
>>> In short: it toggles the laptop from discrete-only mode, and optimus
>>> mode, requiring a reboot to switch.
>>>
>>> From what I understand of switcheroo it is more to manage having dual
>>> (or more) GPU available during runtime, and manage the power states,
>>> offload etc.
>>
>> Right, I did not realize this requires a reboot, that would be
>> something to mention in the Documentation bits accompanying the patch.
>>
>> This is also a reason why it is good to have the docs update in
>> the same patch as adding the functionality, because the docs may
>> help with reviewing.
>>
>> Anyways I agree that if this requires a reboot then using
>> the vga switcheroo stuff is not applicable. So we can just go with
>> a simple(ish) asus-wmi sysfs attribute.
>
> Would this not fit the existing "firmware-attributes" class?
> It even has a flag to signal that a reboot is required after an attribute has
> been changed.
Yes it sounds like a BIOS setting is being toggled from within
Linux, which would normally be done through the
"firmware-attributes" class, but all existing "firmware-attributes"
class drivers allow changing all BIOS setting not just a single
setting, so using the "firmware-attributes" class here is not really
appropriate.
> Maybe it is overkill to use it only for this, though.
Right :)
Regards,
Hans
>>> I have a vastly improved patch for this prepared now. Because of how
>>> the actual feature works (and the above explanation) it must be under
>>> the asus-nb-wmi sysfs (next to the dgpu_disable and egpu_enable toggles
>>> which are also unusual and non-standard work-arounds of Windows
>>> issues).
>>
>> Ack, sounds good.
>
> Thomas
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-12 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-09 2:50 [PATCH v3 0/6] asus-wmi: Add support for RGB keyboards Luke D. Jones
2022-08-09 2:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] asus-wmi: Implement TUF laptop keyboard RGB control Luke D. Jones
2022-08-09 8:46 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-09 8:55 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-09 9:29 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-09 9:31 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-09 10:50 ` Pavel Machek
2022-08-10 4:44 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-11 15:01 ` Hans de Goede
2022-08-11 15:05 ` Hans de Goede
2022-08-11 22:13 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-09 2:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] asus-wmi: Implement TUF laptop keyboard LED modes Luke D. Jones
2022-08-09 3:16 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-09 9:22 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-09 9:30 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-09 2:50 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] asus-wmi: Implement TUF laptop keyboard power states Luke D. Jones
2022-08-09 8:52 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-09 8:58 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-09 2:50 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] asus-wmi: Document previously added attributes Luke D. Jones
2022-08-09 9:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-11 15:08 ` Hans de Goede
2022-08-11 22:08 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-09 2:50 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] asus-wmi: Convert all attr-show to use sysfs_emit Luke D. Jones
2022-08-09 9:27 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-08-11 18:52 ` Hans de Goede
2022-08-09 2:50 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] asus-wmi: Support the hardware GPU MUX on some laptops Luke D. Jones
2022-08-09 7:19 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-11 13:53 ` Hans de Goede
2022-08-11 22:01 ` Luke Jones
2022-08-12 7:59 ` Hans de Goede
2022-08-12 8:31 ` Thomas Weißschuh
2022-08-12 8:44 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2022-08-09 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] asus-wmi: Add support for RGB keyboards Andy Shevchenko
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