Bug#781843: Patch: Add apple_set_os command neede for Macbook Pro 11, 3 (Late 2013)

[Felix Zielcke]

Control: forwarded -1 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2013-12/msg00442.html

Am Freitag, den 03.04.2015, 20:02 +0200 schrieb Bruno Bierbaumer:

> Dear Debian folks,
> the current generation of dual GPU Macbook Pros turn off the integrated Intel GPU when any other OS than Mac OS X is booted.
> This works by MAC OS X identifying itself as a custom EFI protocol.
> 
> The supplied patch adds a command (apple_set_os) that fakes this OS identification to make all the hardware accessible to Linux.
> So it's possible to have much better battery life and driver support by switching to the power saving Intel GPU instead of the discrete Nvidia GPU.
> 
> It would be great if you could apply this patch to the Debian package. I haven been using this patch for months and it works well.
> The command should also be side-effect free as it just gets registered and then can be run by users who needs this quirk for their hardware. 
> 

Thanks for the report. But our opinion is that we don't want to diverge
much from upstream.
I looked a bit in the grub-devel archives around. But it seems that
patch got a bit stuck?