Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933324AbZD1RI7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:08:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933048AbZD1RFc (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:05:32 -0400 Received: from outbound-mail-157.bluehost.com ([67.222.39.37]:56542 "HELO outbound-mail-157.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933060AbZD1RFa (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:05:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=virtuousgeek.org; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=ttsgdMmg8Ga9HWV9vh78/OaCGjCaFLLZdIS89pYbkEkYbs+wHqS6tKVu9/Rcr0zIR4NYQN4nweEJN1vtyhVgqGTrXPqg2V0ETZ/gPAeHbCOiAZn1+4mNYZ1si6f6Hj2A; Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:04:21 -0700 From: Jesse Barnes To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Dave Airlie , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , LKML Subject: Re: kms in defconfig Message-ID: <20090428100421.5ea15d67@hobbes> In-Reply-To: <1240903942.7620.68.camel@twins> References: <21d7e9970904270121s1c58365bqc8933f8a3ffc5f1a@mail.gmail.com> <20090427083935.GA20941@elte.hu> <1240846843.7620.32.camel@twins> <21d7e9970904271854q68242f08pb3f8e12f0ddb6506@mail.gmail.com> <1240903942.7620.68.camel@twins> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {10642:box514.bluehost.com:virtuous:virtuousgeek.org} {sentby:smtp auth 75.111.28.251 authed with jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1883 Lines: 47 On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:32:22 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:54 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra > > wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:39 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > >> * Dave Airlie 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. > > Can't the driver detect KMS and use it when present? In that case they > could just ship a KMS capable driver that works either way. > > Anyway, I'm sure it'll all sort itself out. Yeah Jaunty has such drivers, but Intrepid released with 2.4.x xf86-video-intel drivers I think, which doesn't have autodetection. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/