Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: kms in defconfig | | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:32:22 +0200 |
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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.
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