From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 7 21:56:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18757DD5 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 21:56:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from florent@peterschmitt.fr) Received: from peterschmitt.fr (peterschmitt.fr [5.135.177.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95411770 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 21:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.30] (4ab54-4-88-163-248-31.fbx.proxad.net [88.163.248.31]) by peterschmitt.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A9824A324 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 2013 23:56:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <51B2735A.4030201@peterschmitt.fr> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:57:14 +0000 From: Florent Peterschmitt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130520 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: A way to switch off nVidia discrete cards ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:56:58 -0000 Hi, I've absolutely no skill in system development but I think, based on bbswitch (which is part of bumblebee project), that doing such a think would not be too difficult. I have a 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD which I'm going to upgrade to -current, for testing and developing purpose so, is there any documentation or little how-to of how to develop for FreeBSD, in the kernel, using access to hardware and ACPI ? Thanks