Subject: Re: PowerPC radeon KMS - is it possible?

From: Michel Dänzer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:02:40 +0200

On Mit, 2012-04-18 at 13:25 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: 
> Michel Dänzer <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > On Mit, 2012-04-18 at 09:42 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: 
> >> Michel Dänzer <[email-masked]> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Not sure it's a good idea to set both of these =y: It will prevent the
> >> > radeon driver from initializing at all by default if radeonfb is active.
> >> 
> >> You can say video=radeonfb:off.
> >
> > I know, I'm referring to the default behaviour without any relevant
> > kernel command line options.
> 
> Which is exactly the right behaviour for me.

You do understand that 'prevent the radeon driver from initializing at
all' means direct rendering won't work at all, even with older Mesa
drivers?

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