linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios

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Message-ID: <20121025180654.GA28920@fritha.org>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:06:54 +0200
From:	Heinz Diehl <htd@...tha.org>
To:	Paweł Sikora <pawel.sikora@...k.net>
Cc:	Martin Peres <martin.peres@...ri.fr>,
	Heinz Diehl <htd@...cy-poultry.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	marcheu@...omium.org, Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>,
	Lekensteyn <lekensteyn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops).

On 25.10.2012, Paweł Sikora wrote: 

> what is the reason of loading nouveau driver for laptops 
> with nvidia optimus and enabling vga switcheroo
> which doesn't work in such (optimus) cases.

You can safely compile a kernel without nouveau, your Nvidia 
card will not be used at all since neither Linux nor the 
proprietary nvidia driver does support optimus at this time
(and frankly, I won't buy any further machines with opticrap).
So having nouveau compiled and loaded seems like a waste of ressources
in this case.

For me it's important to have nouveau working, because I try/use
Bumblebee and optirun: 

http://bumblebee-project.org/
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bumblebee

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