We now refuse to load on gen6+ if kms is not enabled: commit 26394d9251879231b85e6c8cf899fa43e75c68f1 Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> Date: Mon Mar 26 21:33:18 2012 +0200 drm/i915: refuse to load on gen6+ without kms Which results in the drm core calling our lastclose function to clean up the mess, but that one is neatly broken for such failure cases since kms has been introduced in commit 79e539453b34e35f39299a899d263b0a1f1670bd Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> Date: Fri Nov 7 14:24:08 2008 -0800 DRM: i915: add mode setting support Reported-by: Paulo Zanoni <przanoni at gmail.com> Signed-Off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c index 23868d3..25901c3 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c @@ -1781,7 +1781,13 @@ void i915_driver_lastclose(struct drm_device * dev) { drm_i915_private_t *dev_priv = dev->dev_private; - if (!dev_priv || drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) { + /* On gen6+ we refuse to init without kms enabled, but then the drm core + * goes right around and calls lastclose. Check for this and don't clean + * up anything. */ + if (!dev_priv) + return; + + if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) { intel_fb_restore_mode(dev); vga_switcheroo_process_delayed_switch(); return; -- 1.7.10.4