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

[Bruno Bierbaumer]

Hello Felix,
Thank you for your quick answer.

It would make perfect sense to integrate this patch upstream, but
frankly I also think it got stuck and that is the reason I report it here.
Do you have have any idea how we could push this patch a little to get
it merged?

Greetings,
Bruno

On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:24:30 +0200 Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> 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?
> 
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