Re: [PATCH] drm/kms/radeon: Add kconfig to specify the default modesetting

[Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Takashi Iwai<tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> This patch adds a Kconfig item to specify the default radeon modeset
> value.  Also fixed the description of CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS.
>
> Since KMS gives problems on some Radeon devices, it's safer to disable
> it as default on distro kernels.  But distros would love to include the
> feature itself instead of disabling KMS completely.
>
> Reference: Novell bnc#527910
>        https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527910

I'm sort of torn on this, when radeon KMS moves out of staging it will
be disabled by
default using the current option. It will build everything always and
disable/enable like this patch
does. I'm not willing to do that yet esp now in -rcX time as it might
break builds
on some other arches.

So if a distro isn't shipping a compatible userspace, I'd rather they
didn't ship
the kernel support built at all until we move it from staging.

AFAIK you guys don't use -ati on a lot of cards kms is useful so I'm
not sure when you'll
ever have a compatible userspace.

Dave.