From: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
To: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915: Flatten DRIVER_MODESET checks in i915_irq.c
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:42:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1424353374.19250.3.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424353193.19250.1.camel@intel.com>
On to, 2015-02-19 at 15:39 +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> On to, 2015-02-19 at 12:25 +0000, Dave Gordon wrote:
> > On 12/02/15 22:38, Imre Deak wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 11:30 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >> UMS is no more!
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> >
> > Some machines now won't boot in "recovery mode", which specifies
> > "nomodeset" and therefore results in various important bits of code not
> > being executed. Will we eventually ignore "modeset" completely, or just
> > refuse to load at all if "nomodeset" is explicitly specified?
>
> The driver will already refuse to load with nomodeset for GEN6+ for
> quite some time now. On old platforms UMS would still work before this
> patch, but afaik there was a decision to stop supporting UMS. Note that
> this doesn't mean "recovery mode" or equivalently nomodeset will break
> booting, it just means user space will fall back to vesa/vga or text
> mode.
Ah, or did you mean after this patch we should refuse loading the driver
in case of nomodeset even for old platforms? That would make sense
indeed.
--Imre
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-19 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-03 10:30 [PATCH 1/4] drm/irq: Add drm_crtc_vblank_reset Daniel Vetter
2015-02-03 10:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] drm/i915: Drop pipe_enable checks in vblank funcs Daniel Vetter
2015-02-12 22:37 ` Imre Deak
2015-02-13 7:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-02-03 10:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915: Flatten DRIVER_MODESET checks in i915_irq.c Daniel Vetter
2015-02-12 22:38 ` Imre Deak
2015-02-19 12:25 ` Dave Gordon
2015-02-19 13:39 ` Imre Deak
2015-02-19 13:42 ` Imre Deak [this message]
2015-02-23 11:32 ` [Intel-gfx] " Imre Deak
2015-02-03 10:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] drm/i915: Switch to drm_crtc variants of vblank functions Daniel Vetter
2015-02-12 22:57 ` Imre Deak
2015-02-13 7:46 ` [Intel-gfx] " Daniel Vetter
2015-02-03 11:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] drm/irq: Add drm_crtc_vblank_reset Laurent Pinchart
2015-02-03 11:53 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-02-04 9:31 ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2015-02-12 21:56 ` Imre Deak
2015-02-13 7:44 ` Daniel Vetter
2015-02-13 11:35 ` Imre Deak
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