Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:04:21 -0700 | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: kms in defconfig |
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:32:22 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:54 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra > > <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > >> * Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hi guys, > > >> > > > >> > I just noticed CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is enabled for x86-64. > > >> > > > >> > This should never be the case, as anyone who built defconfig > > >> > kernels before, will now get KMS enabled when really they need > > >> > to have done userspace upgrades. > > >> > > >> I've yet to see such a bugreport. > > > > > > Whenever I accidentally enable KMS I get a dead X (happens way > > > more often that I'd like to), I blame this on the ubuntu Xorg > > > packages, but can't be arsed to fix it myself -- hopefully the > > > kinky koala will fix stuff, but who knows. > > > > Well you can't really blame anyone else for it, since you have to > > put the code upstream > > in the kernel before you can release drivers that use it for > > distros to package. > > > > So it would be impossible for any distro to have shipped kms > > drivers in a useful fashion before KMS is actually in the kernel. > > Can't the driver detect KMS and use it when present? In that case they > could just ship a KMS capable driver that works either way. > > Anyway, I'm sure it'll all sort itself out.
Yeah Jaunty has such drivers, but Intrepid released with 2.4.x xf86-video-intel drivers I think, which doesn't have autodetection.
-- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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