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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net" title="Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>"> <span class="fn">Paul Menzel</span></a>
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title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - [i945GM] Just black screen and mouse cursor with `i915.fastboot=1`"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84682">bug 84682</a>
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title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - [i945GM] Just black screen and mouse cursor with `i915.fastboot=1`"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84682#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - [i945GM] Just black screen and mouse cursor with `i915.fastboot=1`"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84682">bug 84682</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net" title="Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>"> <span class="fn">Paul Menzel</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Daniel Vetter from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=84682#c1">comment #1</a>)
<span class="quote">> commit 382dbe16b7b6b88ad064833d330f95828dbb4d7e
> Author: Daniel Vetter <<a href="mailto:daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch">daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch</a>>
> Date: Tue Nov 4 14:48:02 2014 +0100
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> drm/i915: Mark fastboot as unsafe
>
> Fastboot in its current incarnation assumes that the pfit isn't
> relevatn for the state and that it can be disabled without restarting</span >
releva*nt*
<span class="quote">> the crtc. Unfortunately that's not the case on gen2/3 - it upsets the
> hw and results in a black screen.
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> Worse, the way the current fastboot hack is structure we can't detect</span >
structure*d*
<span class="quote">> and work around this in the code, since the fastboot smashes the
> adjusted mode into crtc->mode. Which means the higher levels can't
> correctly figure out that this is a lie and act accordingly.
>
> Since fastboot is just a tech demo let's mark the module option as
> experimental and close the coresponding reports as wontfix.
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> Bugzilla: <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED WONTFIX - [i945GM] Just black screen and mouse cursor with `i915.fastboot=1`"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=84682">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84682</a>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <<a href="mailto:daniel.vetter@intel.com">daniel.vetter@intel.com</a>>
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> We have a long-term plan to fix fastboot and properly integrate it and
> enable it by default. That should stop gen2/3 from falling over, too.</span >
Sorry, what do you mean by “falling over”? Accidently use fastboot?</pre>
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