Otherwise we may remove the only console for a nomodeset system.
We became more aggressive in our kicking with
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Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Tue Jun 12 11:28:17 2012 +0200
drm/i915: kick any firmware framebuffers before claiming the gtt
Reported-and-tested-by: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54615
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
goto put_gmch;
}
- i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(dev_priv);
+ if (drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_MODESET))
+ i915_kick_out_firmware_fb(dev_priv);
pci_set_master(dev->pdev);