From e147accbd19f55489dabdcc4dc3551cc3e3f2553 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jani Nikula Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:25:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] drm/i915: tell the user KMS is required for gen6+ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c index 0c86c4840df3..9a5424180127 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) -- 2.20.1