linux-kernel - [ 22/66] drm/i915: Only kick out vesafb if we takeover the fbcon with KMS

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Message-Id: <20121115040940.616195253@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 20:10:27 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Subject: [ 22/66] drm/i915: Only kick out vesafb if we takeover the fbcon with KMS

3.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>

commit 1623392af9da983f3ad088a75076c9da05e5600d upstream.

Otherwise we may remove the only console for a nomodeset system.

We became more aggressive in our kicking with
commit e188719a2891f01b3100dca4ae3a055fb5a7ab52
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Date:   Tue Jun 12 11:28:17 2012 +0200

    drm/i915: kick any firmware framebuffers before claiming the gtt

Reported-and-tested-by: monnier@....umontreal.ca
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54615
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1484,7 +1484,8 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *
 		goto put_gmch;
 	}
 
-	i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(dev_priv);
+	if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET))
+		i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(dev_priv);
 
 	pci_set_master(dev->pdev);
 


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