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| author | Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> | 2013-10-10 15:25:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-10-10 19:08:06 +0200 |
| commit | e147accbd19f55489dabdcc4dc3551cc3e3f2553 (patch) | |
| tree | 61a6e070a908760b3cf62300a7ab3c647347b6ca | |
| parent | f468980171fa6293917a8b59bfec71c6616e06c9 (diff) | |
drm/i915: tell the user KMS is required for gen6+
Educate the users why i915 won't load on gen6+ and nomodeset.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61671
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c index 0c86c4840df3..9a5424180127 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c @@ -1477,8 +1477,11 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags) info = (struct intel_device_info *) flags; /* Refuse to load on gen6+ without kms enabled. */ - if (info->gen >= 6 && !drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) + if (info->gen >= 6 && !drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) { + DRM_INFO("Your hardware requires kernel modesetting (KMS)\n"); + DRM_INFO("See CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS, nomodeset, and i915.modeset parameters\n"); return -ENODEV; + } dev_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev_priv), GFP_KERNEL); if (dev_priv == NULL) |