It's been 5 years since kms support was merged and roughly 4 years
since UMS support was ripped out from userspace drivers.
Thus far it's not been a big burden to keep the ums paths alive, and
we've made some good progress in better separating it from the kms
code by sprinkling DRIVER_MODESET checks all over the place.
But now that the drm demidlayering is within reach this changes. I
want to make the driver loading code more robust using devres.c and
other cool tricks. But that doesn't work with ums due to the
shadow-attach trick. Which means we either
a) need to split out a complete ums codebase like radeon has
b) kill it for good.
The 2nd option is obviously much less work than the first, so I think
it's time to test the waters and see how many people out there still
use ums.
I've decided that silently failing to initialize the driver (and not
e.g. failing to load the module) is the right thing. That way we
should only get reports from users that actually care about some ums
features (like accelerated gl or support for secondary outputs).
Everyone else will just fall back to the vesa X driver.
For developers there's a small info level dmesg output.
The plan is to drop this Kconfig option after 3.16 (so gives us 2 full
releases) and then start killing code for real 2-3 releases
afterwards. That should be more than enough time for users to pipe up.
Of course if anyone does we need to revisit this plan and maybe go
with option a) above.
Also enable the KMS support by default in Kconfig and polish the help
texts a bit.
v2: Add the missing hunk of actual code changes. Oops. (Ville)
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
We only depend on the intel-gtt module for GTT frobbign on older gens.
The intel_agp module is optional, except for UMS and some old XvMC
userland on gen3. So make AGP support optional. As before, we will
fail the i915 init for UMS and gen3 KMS the same as before if
intel_agp isn't around.
intel-gtt.c is left with a somewhat ugly ifdef mess, but I'm going
to save that for a later cleaning.
At least my gen2 still works with the patch and CONFIG_AGP=n.
v2: Make i915 depend on X86 and PCI, and intel-gtt depend on PCI
Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Boots Just Fine (tm)!
The only glitch seems to be that at least on Fedora the boot splash
gets confused and doesn't display much at all.
And since there's no ugly console flickering anymore in between, the
flicker while switching between X servers (VT support is still enabled)
is even more jarring.
Also, I'm unsure whether we don't need to somehow kick out vgacon, now
that nothing else gets in the way. But stuff seems to work, so I
don't care. Also everything still works as well with VGA_CONSOLE=n
Also the #ifdef mess needs a bit of a cleanup, follow-up patches will
do just that.
To keep the Kconfig tidy, extract all the i915 options into its own
file.
v2:
- Rebase on top of the preliminary hw support option and the
intel_drv.h cleanup.
- Shut up warnings in i915_debugfs.c
v3: Use the right CONFIG variable, spotted by Chon Ming.
Cc: Lee, Chon Ming <chon.ming.lee@intel.com>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chon Ming Lee <chon.ming.lee@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Borislav Petkov