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authorJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2013-10-10 15:25:37 +0300
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2013-10-10 19:08:06 +0200
commite147accbd19f55489dabdcc4dc3551cc3e3f2553 (patch)
tree61a6e070a908760b3cf62300a7ab3c647347b6ca /drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
parentf468980171fa6293917a8b59bfec71c6616e06c9 (diff)
drm/i915: tell the user KMS is required for gen6+
Educate the users why i915 won't load on gen6+ and nomodeset. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61671 Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
index 0c86c4840df..9a542418012 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1477,8 +1477,11 @@ int i915_driver_load(struct drm_device *dev, unsigned long flags)
info = (struct intel_device_info *) flags;
/* Refuse to load on gen6+ without kms enabled. */
- if (info->gen >= 6 && !drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET))
+ if (info->gen >= 6 && !drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET)) {
+ DRM_INFO("Your hardware requires kernel modesetting (KMS)\n");
+ DRM_INFO("See CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS, nomodeset, and i915.modeset parameters\n");
return -ENODEV;
+ }
dev_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev_priv), GFP_KERNEL);
if (dev_priv == NULL)