[PATCH RESEND 2/2] drm/i915: prevent the vgacon from ever reloading

2015-11-29 Thread Emil Velikov
On 29 November 2015 at 12:47, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 07:37:53PM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Emil Velikov >> wrote: >> > On 27 November 2015 at 15:10, Daniel Vetter >> > wrote: >> >> It only leads to bloodshed and tears - we don't bothe

[PATCH RESEND 2/2] drm/i915: prevent the vgacon from ever reloading

2015-11-29 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 07:37:53PM -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Emil Velikov > wrote: > > On 27 November 2015 at 15:10, Daniel Vetter > > wrote: > >> It only leads to bloodshed and tears - we don't bother to restore a > >> working legacy vga hw setup. > >> > >>

[PATCH RESEND 2/2] drm/i915: prevent the vgacon from ever reloading

2015-11-27 Thread Ilia Mirkin
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Emil Velikov wrote: > On 27 November 2015 at 15:10, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> It only leads to bloodshed and tears - we don't bother to restore a >> working legacy vga hw setup. >> >> On haswell with the new dynamic power well code this leads to even >> more hilar

[PATCH RESEND 2/2] drm/i915: prevent the vgacon from ever reloading

2015-11-27 Thread Daniel Vetter
It only leads to bloodshed and tears - we don't bother to restore a working legacy vga hw setup. On haswell with the new dynamic power well code this leads to even more hilarity since for some configurations the hardware is simply no longer there. The actual implementation is a bit a hack - we re

[PATCH RESEND 2/2] drm/i915: prevent the vgacon from ever reloading

2015-11-27 Thread Emil Velikov
On 27 November 2015 at 15:10, Daniel Vetter wrote: > It only leads to bloodshed and tears - we don't bother to restore a > working legacy vga hw setup. > > On haswell with the new dynamic power well code this leads to even > more hilarity since for some configurations the hardware is simply no > l