On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu> wrote: > > * Dave Airlie <airl...@linux.ie> wrote: > >> >> > If it now does not boot up if all its sub-options are enabled, even of some >> > of those sub-options are new, does that count as a driver regression? Sure >> > it >> > does to me ... >> >> But it doesn't to anyone else under any reasonable meaning of the word >> regression. > > There are reactions in this thread that contradict your 'anyone else' point. > >> The config option states >> "Choose this option if you want kernel modesetting enabled by default, >> and you have a new enough userspace to support this. Running old >> userspaces with this enabled will cause pain." >> >> Will cause pain sounds painful to me, I can make it seem much worse if >> you'd like. > > Except you are missing that the hang (and the first crash as well) happens on > brand-new user-space just as much - not just on 'old userspaces'. > > The bugs i've triggered are independent of any user-space component - it > happens with a fresh distro just as much. > > As i suggested before, at least the text should be updated to include what > has been written about CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS in this thread before: > > > This is a completely new driver. It's only part of the existing drm for > > compatibility reasons. It requires an entirely different graphics stack > > above it and works very differently from the old drm stack. >
Okay I've attached a patch with a revised Kconfig in it. Does this sound more like reality? Dave.
0001-drm-radeon-kms-change-Kconfig-text-to-reflect-the-ne.patch
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