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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:54:41 +1000 From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: kms in defconfig On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> * Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > I just noticed CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is enabled for x86-64. >> > >> > This should never be the case, as anyone who built defconfig >> > kernels before, will now get KMS enabled when really they need to >> > have done userspace upgrades. >> >> I've yet to see such a bugreport. > > Whenever I accidentally enable KMS I get a dead X (happens way more > often that I'd like to), I blame this on the ubuntu Xorg packages, but > can't be arsed to fix it myself -- hopefully the kinky koala will fix > stuff, but who knows. Well you can't really blame anyone else for it, since you have to put the code upstream in the kernel before you can release drivers that use it for distros to package. So it would be impossible for any distro to have shipped kms drivers in a useful fashion before KMS is actually in the kernel. Dave. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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