On 27 November 2015 at 15:10, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > It only leads to bloodshed and tears - we don't bother to restore a > working legacy vga hw setup. > > On haswell with the new dynamic power well code this leads to even > more hilarity since for some configurations the hardware is simply no > longer there. > > The actual implementation is a bit a hack - we realy on fbcon to kick > out the vgacon. To make this also work with I915_FBDEV=n (or FBCON=n) > and VGA_CONSOLE=y i915 already unregisters the vga console manually > early in the driver load sequence. > Interesting... nv50 and later GPUs are in a roughly similar shame afaict. They lack the dedicated hardware and no one really bothered figuring out how to restore things to a working shape [1]. Then again, upon sequential load of the nouveau module the GPU gets initialised properly, where you can get X (weston?) up and running without issues. Am I thinking about a different thing ? I take it that you guys do less of the (re)initialisation dance, to ensure faster boot times ? Thanks, Emil [1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/KernelModeSetting/#deactivatingkmsandunloadingnouveau _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
