Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] efi/x86: Call set_os() protocol on dual GPU Macs

[Orlando Chamberlain <orlandoch.dev@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:01:08 +0200, Lukas Wunner Wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 04:25:19PM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 04:35:15PM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote:
> > > For the Macs having a single GPU, in case a person uses an eGPU,
> > > they still need this apple-set-os quirk for hybrid graphics.
> > 
> > Sending this message again as for some reason it got sent only to
> > Lukas:
> > 
> > Full model name: Mac mini (2018) (Macmini8,1)
> > 
> > The drive link below has the logs:
> > 
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P3-GlksU6WppvzvWC0A-nAoTZh7oPPxk/view?usp=drive_link
>
> Some observations:
>
> * dmesg-with-egpu.txt:  It seems the system was actually booted
>   *without* an eGPU, so the filename appears to be a misnomer.
> 
> * The two files in the with_apple_set_os_efi directory only contain
>   incomplete dmesg output.  Boot with log_buf_len=16M to solve this.
>   Fortunately the truncated log is sufficient to see what's going on.

Hi Lukas, in case it helps, I got the user with the macmini and egpu to
get logs that don't have the start cut off [0].

>   We could constrain apple_set_os to newer models by checking for
>   presence of the T2 PCI device [106b:1802].  Alternatively, we could
>   use the BIOS date (DMI_BIOS_DATE in SMBIOS data) to enforce a
>   cut-off such that only machines with a recent BIOS use apple_set_os.

It might be simpler to match "iBridge" in the DMI bios_version as this
indicates that a computer has the T2 (aka iBridge which runs bridgeOS).
I don't think there have been any issues from when the downstream T2
kernels had apple-set-os unconditionally so it should be fine to enable
for all T2 macs at least. This would exclude the T1 Macs with possibly
missing trackpad dimensions in applespi that you mentioned [1].

On my MacBookPro16,1:

$ cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version
1715.60.5.0.0 (iBridge: 19.16.10647.0.0,0)

[0]: https://gist.github.com/Redecorating/8111324065016363223b5ce719e48676/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZoJPgSlZJ3ZlU2zL@wunner.de/

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Regards,

Orlando