[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/6] drm/i915: make fbdev initialization asynchronous

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:48:27PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> This gets us out of our init code and out to userspace quite a bit
> faster, but does open us up to some bugs given the state of our init
> time locking.

Why are we hand rolling an async task for this? See
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2010-August/007642.html

And the locking issue was the main reason why we haven't been able to
proceed so far...
-Chris
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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre