Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:36:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: kms in defconfig |
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:56:27 +1000 Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> > KMS is the sane design for graphics and i'd go as far as to consider > > user-space mode setting an outright _bug_. It look a long time to > > fix but now lets look forward and fix all the bugs in KMS, ASAP ... > > Its mainly for things like Andrews Vaio, people will not expect a new kernel > to take out any current userspace, its a pain, but we assume distros + people > who compile their own kernels will know what userspace exists on their > machines and other will get the least surprise.
My Vaio thanks you.
What is the expected user-visible failure mode when someone enables KMS on naive userspace? iow, how can bug report screeners recognise when this has happened?
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