On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:17 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The console subsystem only provides a function to switch to a given >> console, but we want to actually only switach away from vgacon. >> Unconditionally switching to the dummy console resulted in switching >> away from fbcon in multi-gpu setups when other gpu drivers are loaded >> before i915. >> >> Then either the reinitialization of fbcon when i915 registers its >> fbdev emulation or the teardown of the fbcon driver killed the >> machine. So only switch to the dummy console when it's required. >> >> Kudos to Chris for the original idea, I've only refined it a bit to >> still unregister vgacon even when it's currently unused. >> >> This regression has been introduced in >> >> commit a4de05268e674e8ed31df6348269e22d6c6a1803 >> Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> >> Date: Thu Jun 5 16:20:46 2014 +0200 >> >> drm/i915: Kick out vga console >> >> Reported-and-tested-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@xxxxxx> >> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> Pulled into -fixes, thanks for the reviews. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
