[PATCH] modesetting: don't be a GPU screen
Stephen Warren
swarren at nvidia.com
Tue Aug 5 11:03:09 PDT 2014
Rob Clark wrote at Tuesday, August 05, 2014 12:00 PM:
> It doesn't actually make any sense for a kms-only ddx. And it causes
> problems with non-PCI devices, because some xservers will skip trying to
> claim the device as a regular device if it is not a PCI device. The
> following two xserver patches should fix this:
>
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/28494/
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/28495/
>
> but since a display-only non-display device makes no sense, let's just
> nuke that code to avoid being a problem.
Sort-of-tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
I ran Fedora rawhide's xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.16.0-1.fc22.armv7hl under
gdb, and forced flags and scr_flags to 0 in this path, and then X started.
That's equivalent to what this patch does. Without doing that, X would not
start, complaining about no screens found.
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