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Years Later, VGA_Switcheroo Is Still Being Worked On For MacBooks

Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 13 October 2015 at 04:46 PM EDT. 1 Comment

Open-source support is still being worked on for GPU switching with pre-Retina Apple MacBook computers.

Using VGA_Switcheroo. patches have been floating around since 2012 for support for switching only the DDC to allow for GPU switching to work on (pre-retina) Apple MacBooks. In the past three years different developers have workedo n the support and now Lukas Wunner has been tackling the support most recently.

His patch-set is now up to the fourth revision as of yesterday. Perhaps for Linux 4.4 we'll finally see this support cleaned up and ready for the mainline kernel.

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