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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:59:19 +1000 From: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.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 Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:56:27 +1000 Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com> wrote: > >> > KMS is the sane design for graphics and i'd go as far as to consider >> > user-space mode setting an outright _bug_. It look a long time to >> > fix but now lets look forward and fix all the bugs in KMS, ASAP ... >> >> Its mainly for things like Andrews Vaio, people will not expect a new kernel >> to take out any current userspace, its a pain, but we assume distros + people >> who compile their own kernels will know what userspace exists on their >> machines and other will get the least surprise. > > My Vaio thanks you. > > What is the expected user-visible failure mode when someone enables KMS > on naive userspace? iow, how can bug report screeners recognise when this has > happened? > > Generally X doesn't start, or X starts but dies soon after, so its fairly easy to nail down from xorg log file and dmesg. 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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