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@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
