[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915: Flatten DRIVER_MODESET checks in i915_irq.c

[Imre Deak]

On to, 2015-02-19 at 15:39 +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> On to, 2015-02-19 at 12:25 +0000, Dave Gordon wrote:
> > On 12/02/15 22:38, Imre Deak wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 11:30 +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > >> UMS is no more!
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > 
> > Some machines now won't boot in "recovery mode", which specifies
> > "nomodeset" and therefore results in various important bits of code not
> > being executed. Will we eventually ignore "modeset" completely, or just
> > refuse to load at all if "nomodeset" is explicitly specified?
> 
> The driver will already refuse to load with nomodeset for GEN6+ for
> quite some time now. On old platforms UMS would still work before this
> patch, but afaik there was a decision to stop supporting UMS. Note that
> this doesn't mean "recovery mode" or equivalently nomodeset will break
> booting, it just means user space will fall back to vesa/vga or text
> mode.

Ah, or did you mean after this patch we should refuse loading the driver
in case of nomodeset even for old platforms? That would make sense
indeed.

--Imre