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what i am worried about is that by the time this whole thing is complete we won't need it anymore (at least for Xorg)
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostCould you be more precise here, please?
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Originally posted by dfx. View Postsound awesome.
and imagine how even more awesome that would become if perfect offload and balancing between several GPUs be made while rendering to output from one of them!
not only all those on-boards chips would become useful again but that would be a clean vendor-independent replacement for shit like Crossfire and such. of course its performance would be all about memory and it's a bitch to copy memory via motherboards buses instead of direct connectionso, it's mostly about raw computing.
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Originally posted by Peterix View PostA new driver for a graphics card is installed. Instead of closing all my apps, logging out, shutting down X, removing the old driver from the kernel, loading the new one, starting X and then ending up with all my apps closed, a single command reloads the driver, the screen blinks and it's *done*. It works like this on Windows already.
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I applaud these steps to a efficient and decent use of all available silicon.
Hopefully hot-plugging will be standardized and done for all kinds of devices in the future. Not just graphics cards.
(think about audio-cards)
Just like there is now work on a unified memory management stuff.
(Not just for GPU's.)
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sound awesome.
and imagine how even more awesome that would become if perfect offload and balancing between several GPUs be made while rendering to output from one of them!
not only all those on-boards chips would become useful again but that would be a clean vendor-independent replacement for shit like Crossfire and such. of course its performance would be all about memory and it's a bitch to copy memory via motherboards buses instead of direct connectionso, it's mostly about raw computing.
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My understanding is that ironhide and bumblebee are nvidia-specific hacks, while this is proper hotplug implementation for X.
Example of things that could be possible with it (maybe, hopefully):
A new driver for a graphics card is installed. Instead of closing all my apps, logging out, shutting down X, removing the old driver from the kernel, loading the new one, starting X and then ending up with all my apps closed, a single command reloads the driver, the screen blinks and it's *done*. It works like this on Windows already.
Looks like now it supports weird USB graphics cards. Not bad. The bumblebee/ironhide stuff could be nicely integrated into X drivers eventually... at least that's what I'm hoping for
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so what about Bumblebee, ironhide and that stuff, what is the difference?
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First Phase Of X.Org GPU Hot-Plugging Works
Phoronix: First Phase Of X.Org GPU Hot-Plugging Works
David Airlie has demonstrated success in the first phase of his X.Org GPU/driver hot-plugging work, which eventually may lead to proper dynamic GPU switching under X...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTAwNDYTags: None
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