the following patch was just integrated into master: commit db5db2847ffb26c4e8181166498ae6353c65ec9c Author: Patrick Georgi patrick.georgi@secunet.com Date: Fri Jul 20 12:37:06 2012 +0200
i945: Disable IGD if plugin VGA is preferred
It's shut down, but UMA memory is not reclaimed. A later extension could optionally do the magic register dance that allows initialization of IGD as secondary graphics device.
Change-Id: I2a92bb71755005b886a8e1825325c678a9991bf2 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi patrick.georgi@secunet.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/1252 for details.
-gerrit