[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] Make xorg.conf NoAccel/DRI options work under KMS

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Jul 8 21:28:34 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jul  8, 2009 at 12:04:44 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> On Wed,  8 Jul 2009 11:50:38 -0700
> Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> 
> > KMS mode does not call I830AccelMethodInit as that does a ton of
> > random device initialization, but that means that the NoAccel and DRI
> > options were ignored. Split out the option parsing from
> > I830AccelMethodInit and have both KMS and UMS invoke it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
> > ---
> 
> Ugg more configurations... Assuming this is for fallback when something
> bad happens or for debugging couldn't users just use the fbdev driver
> instead?  I'd rather KMS just be a single "everything works" case...
> 
DRI2 init can fail for various reasons, and it's easier to test if you
don't have to hack the driver.  No particular opinion on kms without
uxa, though.

Cheers,
Julien



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