On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 07:58:50AM -0500, Victor Wren wrote:
> In the development version of LFS, the kernel has been bumped up to 4.4.4.
> This has made a small change in frame buffer settings:
> 
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2015-June/069292.html
> 
> In the development version of BLFS, the Xorg Drivers section shows setting
> CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS.  This is no longer a valid setting in the 4.4.4 kernel,
> as the i915 driver will only load if modesetting is enabled.  I have
> confirmed that it has been removed from the kernel config in 4.4.4
> 
> I also think it might be worth mentioning that these settings depend on PCI
> and AGP being enabled. On most machines with integrated Intel graphics, PCI
> is pretty certain to already be enabled, but I would have assumed that AGP
> went out with the passenger pigeon and failed to set it.  I'm trying to
> figure out the kernel docs, as the option I915 apparently sets AGP_INTEL=y
> (convenient).  Still scratching my head over this syntax re: AGP:
> 
> "Depends on: HAS_IOMEM [=y] && DRM [=y] && X86 [=y] && PCI [=y] && (AGP [=y]
> || AGP [=y]=n)"
> 
> Does that mean "don't care" or "preference for [y] but [n] will work, or "if
> you set it [n] I'm gonna change it to [y]"?
> 
> Victor Wren

Commenting on the syntax only (my intels have pulled their kernel
configs forward from past versions with make oldconfig) :

It doesn't seem to make sense in that form, but the final =n is, I
think, saying that _unless_ you set AGP to =y (or perhaps =m, the ||
implies two alternatives) then whichever option that 'help' relates
to cannot be selected.

ĸen
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