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.vet...@ffwll.ch>
Date: Tue Jun 12 11:28:17 2012 +0200
drm/i915: kick any firmware framebuffers before claiming the gtt
Reported-and-tested-by: monn...@iro.umontreal.ca
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54615
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <ch...@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v3.6
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
index efdc204..36a4218 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1511,7 +1511,8 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned
long flags)
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);
--
1.7.10.4
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